Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These are cool. (I worked at NOAA for fifteen years.) I am glad that you both got the pictures and lived to post them! :-) Barney On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Phil Forrest wrote: > A couple hours ago we had a very fast moving cell produce a few funnel > clouds and a decent sized tornado, about 30 meters wide. > > The storm swept from north-northwest towards south-southeast. > We get severe thunderstorms but usually earlier in the year. This week > we got two severe cyclonic storms within two days. A combination of the > heat, drought and moisture being pumped up north from storms in the > tropics, particularly the one in the east Pacific off of the Baja > peninsula. > > Here's a few photos: > > Funnel cloud about to touch the ground a few miles away. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8244_01_E.JPG.html > > Tornado rope on the ground but mostly obscured by rain sheet. This is > the trailing edge of the storm which is an unusual place to find > rotation enough for a tornado. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8248_01_E.JPG.html > > Leading edge (eastern) of the storm showing the underside of the upper > level anvil and mammatus. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8253_01_E.JPG.html > > Very well developed mammatus. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8251_01_E.JPG.html > > Back side of the wall cloud. Looking south. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8260_01_E.JPG.html > > Instability and rotation from directly below. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8263_01_E.JPG.html > > This storm is trying so hard here to produce another tornado. Here is > the partial rope of the last funnel cloud just over the end of our > block. Low level shear tore it apart. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PhilForrest/NM_1207/wx/DSCF8264_01_E.JPG.html > > These aren't too artistic. They are just cool as hell to me considering > my prior employment in the Navy as a meteorologist. > > Thanks all! > Phil Forrest > > -- > http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information