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stormdoctor > Occluded Meso #1This tornado formed on the northern occluded mesocyclone of an amazing supercell that, over the course of hours, put down over 10 tornadoes! (Vertical)
stormdoctor > Mammatus over MatadorSunset view of mammatus in May, 2001. The storm formed over Matador, TX.
stormdoctor > Wilbarger County TornadoOn May 28, 2004, a moderate risk of severe weather was focused on north central TX. So many storms fired at once, though, that they each competed with the energy in the upper atmosphere limiting tornado development. Two storms--one to my south and one to my north--collapsed simultaneously sending outflow boundaries into one another (much like the Florida Peninsula sea breeze). They collided over Vernon, Texas causing forcing and rotation with a very short-lived multivortex tornado (the lowering in the background). What appear as midlevel inflow to the right and left of the picture are actually shelf and roll clouds that fed into the updraft. Since the storm formed on outflow, it died rapidly, but not without a spectacular blue turqouise sky.
stormdoctor > Rear Flank Downdraft Rainbow This complete tornado (even more vivid in person) formed on the RFD of a tornadic supercell near Turkey, Texas, in May, 2001.
stormdoctor > I gauged the distance wrong in this photo resulting in the lightning being a bit blurred (ack!). These CGs illuminate the plateau to the right of the photo near midnight on May 30, 2005. The red dots on the bottom left are the warning lights on the top of a wind farm.
stormdoctor > This is the uncropped version of the original lightning photo I placed at the beginning of this gallery. I loved the various lines in this photo including the diagonal line of the sunset, the dual lightning bolts, and the gorgeous deep red. Near Limon, CO.
stormdoctor > Stout funnel (but no tornado) forming along the clear slot at the updraft base. This feature persisted for a long time until the updraft became completely occluded. Photo was taken facing due west on a "Bob's Road" in SE Baca County, CO, abutting the KS border on May 31, 2007.
stormdoctor > Electric red sunset and faint rainbow illuminated along the outflow-induced tilted updrafts in Parmer Cty, TX, on June 1, 2007.
stormdoctor > HIGHLY rain-wrapped tornado in the occlusion of this HP supercell due west of Springlake, TX, on June 2, 2007. Ground circulation was visible, but did not photograph well in the low-contrast conditions. Note the well-built beaver tail on the right and the wrapping shelf cloud from the RFD (which rotated around the core into the parent updraft base).
Occluded Meso #1

This tornado formed on the northern occluded mesocyclone of an amazing supercell that, over the course of hours, put down over 10 tornadoes! (Vertical)
stormdoctor > Occluded Meso #1This tornado formed on the northern occluded mesocyclone of an amazing supercell that, over the course of hours, put down over 10 tornadoes! (Vertical)
Occluded Meso #1

This tornado formed on the northern occluded mesocyclone of an amazing supercell that, over the course of hours, put down over 10 tornadoes! (Vertical)
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