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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Today's storm
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:13:27 -0400
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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
> 
> -- 
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest
> 
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