Storm chaser Andrew Arnold looks up into a supercell's rotating updraft in western Nebraska during Vortex 2 on June 5, 2009. This storm had previously produced a tornado in eastern Wyoming -- and the cloud overhead was producing a funnel cloud only five minutes before this was taken. As a storm chaser, I'm a bit of a scardy-cat in that I don't usually like to allow rotating updrafts to slide directly overhead (even when they look this disorganized) -- but Project Vortex 2 featured a large number of mobile doppler radar trucks which constantly scanned the sky looking for rotation, acting as an early warning system of sorts.
4 comments:
I don't like having that rotation above my head either. I was chasing in Kansas and got on a storm growing fast near Kalvester. The road took me under the edge of the low precip base of the storm. I noticed the rain stopped even though the clouds were getting darker. I stopped and looked up and saw the rotation. It turned out to be a wall cloud just starting to form, and later produced a tornado. I just hooked a left and got out from under it, but I know that feeling you must have felt when you were under that storm in Wyoming. Uncomfortable
I am a stay at home mom who has always wanted to be a storm chaser. Your pics allow me to enter into a job I will probably never do. I LOVE them! Thanks!- Tara
If you look at it just right, it looks like a face with big teeth is starting to form out of that cloud... and it's looking right at you. YIKES!!!
excellent. thank you!
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