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| Well this was the storm on radar. I was bored
and needed to pick up some lottery tickets so I figured I head out. I delayed and delayed
until I looked out my window when the storm was closer and some sort sort of weird looking
cloud. Sort of like a boundary, but highly elevated. Sorry no pics, was in a rush to leave
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| In about 3 minutes I was north of my house at
a local mall and the rain started to lighten up but the sky immediately got very dark. The
eastern winds also picked up, went from about 10km/h up to 25km/h. I looked up and saw all
this scud just racing NE towards the core of the storm which was very dark. |
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| The weird boundary type thing crept east
slowly but the clouds under it were moving! Still just don't do it justice. Within a few
moments there was a CG off to my north and then the rain really died down to light
drizzle. It was about this point in time when I realized... hmm, sw side of convection,
rapid advection of air north... hey this is the rfb or flanking line. Yeah took about 10
minutes before I figure that out. |
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| About 5 minutes later this lowering formed
and the winds quickly switched to westerly winds. This was very odd since the sfc flow
from the low itself was actually easterly. Right away I realized this was a direct product
of the storm environment. Even though everything was severely elevated and the sfc air was
a balmy 15C, the damn thing was actually trying to go sfc based. |
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| The lowering quickly began to rotate and sfc
based air just fed in. The suction was unbelievable for the storm. Radar showed a crappy
little cell but this thing was cooking. At about this time there was a small horizontal
funnel off screen that I thought I was filming. Will remember to look through the view
finder next time LOL. I can't say for sure but I think this was an elevated wall cloud I
was looking at. |
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| Just south of the suspected wall cloud, there
was another active area with little shear funnels popping up every 20 seconds or so and
lasting about 10 - 40 seconds. These things were just racing into the suspected wall
cloud. In the vid cap above you can see one slightly obscured by some scud (center right). |
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| This image gives a much better idea of what I
was seeing. Clearly now you can see the wall cloud type impression it gave me. The rain
core was just off to the NE of the lowering. Man this stuff was really cooking! The vid
caps just don't do it justice! |
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| I followed the storm a little farther on it's
ENE track but eventually lost it and some rain from the convection further SW crept in and
obscured everything. This was the last image I got before heading home. The actual crazy
cloud motion was to the north of this area, this was a depression marking the edge of the
flanking line, there were no more convective clouds south the depression. |