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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:00:48 PM EDT
Any Meteorologists in the house ???
Just found some old pics... I snapped this pic about 5 years ago while crossing New Mexico... Never seen anything like it before... 
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:02:17 PM EDT
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Hmm, New Mexico, big cloud.....do you give off a faint green glow in low light?
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:02:44 PM EDT
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It's just a regular thunderstorm. They always have an anvil shape like that.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:03:36 PM EDT
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Nuke go off is my best bet, but then you wouldn't be able to post this, ok I give up.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:03:52 PM EDT
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Isn't that a "supercell" - aka big thunderstorn?
... or a nuclear explosion. Either way it's a pretty cool picture !! ... eta, or maybe there's a huge alien spaceship hiding inside it! |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:05:15 PM EDT
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I've only seen clouds like that in Ok, Ark and national geographic.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:09:18 PM EDT
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It was the first and only time I've ever seen anything like it...
The picture just doesn't do it justice... We were watching it come at us for nearly an hour before we decided on a different route... We saw and heard on the CB radio that it spawned a bunch of tornadoes and huge hail stones... I saw a tractor trailer roll into the gas station we stopped at, and he had a broken windshield and dents all over his truck... |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:09:51 PM EDT
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"There was a slight mishap today at the Iranian nuclear reserch facility"  |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:11:50 PM EDT
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If it had heavy rain, hail and tornadoes, it was definitely a supercell:
 www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/suprcell.htm |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:12:23 PM EDT
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That is a textbook example of a supercell thunderstorm...those things are monsters!
Awesome pic!  |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:13:49 PM EDT
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Here in FL I've seen ones similar to that a couple of times.
In fact, I've seen one that was even more spectacular because the top layer of it was thin and wispy, and had spread out in a PERFECT circle, covering a huge section of the sky, and the circle had spokes in a regular pattern in it. Most amazing thunderstorm cloud I've ever seen. Things like this happen when a thunderstorm grows very high and when it gets to its peak heights, conditions don't allow any further upward cloud movement. It's a ceiling to further upward development, and it starts spreading outwards instead. Normally, the upper level has a prevailing wind direction, so the top of the cloud shears off in a particular direction, but in cases like the one pictured, that top layer is calm air so it spreads out in ALL directions instead. CJ |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:20:53 PM EDT
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It was really amazing how symetrical the clouds were... I didn't think of grabbing the camera until long after it had developed... We watched the storm grow from nothing... We were headed East, and the storm developed and crossed right in front of us... The top "anvil" part was so symetrical, I told my wife it HAD to be something man-made... It just looked too perfect...
I swear, I was waiting for a goddamn spaceship to fly out of it... 
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:23:21 PM EDT
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Sounds like you are describing EXACTLY what I saw... By the time I thought to grab the camera, the "spokes" had disappeared and blended in with the rest... |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:26:22 PM EDT
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Terrific shot. BTW, did your hair fall out afterwards?
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Posted: 10/17/2004 12:29:34 PM EDT
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Nope, my hair was falling out LONG before that pic was taken...
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