The "Giant Wave" Supercell Pictures That Will Blow You Away
With Mike Hollingstead's exclusive permission, we present to you June 19, 2011 McCook Nebraska Supercell:
Mike
suggests playing "Exogenesis Symphony Pt 1: Overture" by Muse, while
looking at these pictures... "If the storm could pick a song to have
playing for it, it would pick that song.":
Here is how this supercell (or rather two separate storms) evolved:
One
supercell (with beautiful tiered structure) being chased by the
other... when two supercells collide, "they could be heading into crazy
realms":
Once
these two collided (partly merged, partly towered one over another), it
produced a complex structure that "established its own vortex that
didn't want to stop sucking up the stable layer below." -
During
the next hour the otherwordly structure was still there, but it looked
different - more like a stacked dessert cake, or some sort of a skirted
mushroom:
"Still being an other-worldly sight. You really half felt, this thing is on the wrong planet right now."
What's perhaps the strangest if that smaller funnel clouds formed way up there, between the layers of the structure, some reaching almost horizontally into the "belly of the beast".
Other sightings of "giant wave-like supercell clouds"
Some of
these storm fronts will be classified as shelf clouds, but they still
look like weird upside-down ocean waves. Here is the incredible
supercell, which occurred in eastern Colorado on June 10th, 2006 (top
image):
Giant wave-like shelf cloud, seen near Sydney, Australia, during the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht race:
Some of
these supercell monsters have tentacles (or arms, called "inflow
clouds") that reach out for you... This is Nebraska Sand Hills storm
south of Valentine, July 13, 2009:
And
finally, a powerful supercell as it towers up, resembles nothing less
than a thermonuclear explosion (if mirrored vertically in Photoshop):
What's perhaps the strangest if that smaller funnel clouds formed way up there, between the layers of the structure, some reaching almost horizontally into the "belly of the beast".
Similar to the storm formation seen in Nebraska, this storm in Oklahoma has lightnings shooting from its "mouth". Photo by Mark Humpage:
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