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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Today's storm
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:35:40 -0400
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Barney,
Thanks for the praise! It was a big deal for me 'cause most of the other
times I've seen wx this severe I was either at work and couldn't carry a
camera with me on duty or didn't have a camera on me at the time. I
just wish I had a tripod here. My bogen is in storage in Philly.

Phil Forrest



On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:13:27 -0400
Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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