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Windthorst Wind Thrust

2022-04-21 By Roger Edwards

Windthorst Wind Thrust

The winds of Windthorst helped this supercell to mature, then sent it off to oblivion.  This is the transition between those stages.   What had been a smaller but better-defined, tightening wall cloud became lower, broader and darker.   The storm was ingesting a streamer of cool outflow air from a heavy shower that moved northward across the supercell’s inflow region.   Low-level rotation became broad and poorly focused, never recovering.  Whatever tornado potential this storm may have had—it was in a marginal environment anyway—was suppressed by the ingestion of stable air.  Regardless, the nearly laminar layers made for the best structural show of the storm’s lifespan.  Unlike here, sometimes a supercell can interact with a boundary from a passing cell and strengthen, at least temporarily.

3 ESE Windthorst TX (4 Apr 22) Looking WNW
33.5663, -98.3875

 

Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, storms, supercells, tail cloud, Texas, thunderstorms, wall clouds, weather, Windthorst

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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