Lots of storm images
Posted Jun01, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Updraft base of "mothership" supercell storm in northern Kansas
I've added three more storm photos to the photos I've already posted from Storm Chase 2007, which I write about in my
Saturday, June 2, Weather Journal column. Below, I've also re-linked several other locations on the blog with video and photos of storms both locally and from the various storm-chasing trips to the central U.S. that I've made the last couple of years. From each of these three photos, you can see the "striations" or layers in the storm clouds indicating the effects of high-level winds in sculpting and spinning the storms. As I explain in my column, these high-level winds are often what are missing from our local thunderstorms. You can click on a bigger version of each of these pictures here:
top photo,
middle photo,
bottom photo.
Suspicious lowering beneath updraft base of Kansas supercell
We did see a couple of tornadoes during the course of this trip as you can see on these links:
funnel in Kansas,
cone tornado in Kansas,
late-evening tornado in Texas. And
click here for a wide variety of storm photos and video from our 2007 trip (and if you scroll far enough down, from 2006 too) as well as a day-by-day account of our trip (and some of my other storm chase outings, if you scroll down far enough).
But I also have lots of interesting shots from local storms, taken by me and others. For instance, a fierce thunderstorm late last September that dumped copious hail just to the north of Roanoke.
High-precipitation, or HP, supercell in Texas Panhandle
And a
July storm that sailed over downtown Roanoke with an impressive shelf cloud. Here's an
interesting shot from the Blue Ridge Parkway last June. I chased
a storm along the North-Carolina-Virginia border in September. If you saw the Saturday paper, you would have seen this
May 10 shot of a thunderstorm blowing up on Roanoke's northern horizon. And just last Tuesday, I shot this
cumulonimbus shrouding the late-day sun.
I just wanted to put a large variety of storm shots online in connection with today's column. There are always amazing things to see in the sky, whether it's pulse storms in our mountains or supercells in the Plains.
No comments yet