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Dryline towering cumulus slowly fades with the evening light to the west of Lake Thunderbird. The lake is still high from the heavy rains a week before. There are more frogs this year than I've ever heard.
Date/Time: 20080421 18:47 -0700
Dryline towering cumulus slowly fades with the evening light to the west of Lake Thunderbird. The lake is still high from the heavy rains a week before. There are more frogs this year than I've ever heard.
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This is a closeup of the left mover viewed from the northeast. The storm is heading toward us at 40 mph. One updraft pulse in the supercell produced a temporary upwind anvil growth. But it didn't last long. The updraft soon tilted over a little more a
Date/Time: 20080421 19:09 -0700
This is a closeup of the left mover viewed from the northeast. The storm is heading toward us at 40 mph. One updraft pulse in the supercell produced a temporary upwind anvil growth. But it didn't last long. The updraft soon tilted over a little more at a time.
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Virga trails behind an outward extension of thunderstorm anvil.
Date/Time: 20080421 19:10 -0700
Virga trails behind an outward extension of thunderstorm anvil.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:35 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:36 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:39 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:39 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:39 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before b
Date/Time: 20080421 19:39 -0700
Cloud to air lightning shoots out of the upper reaches of the updraft and anvil base downwind of the updraft base of this anticyclonically rotating supercell approaching us from the southwest at 40 mph. The updraft appears more steady state than before but it still has pulses.
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The base of the left moving supercell slides off just to the east in this 15 sec exposure. We wind up with a little hook echo rain just as the updraft reaches our latitude to our east. All the lightning becomes obscured by the lower-level updraft.
Date/Time: 20080421 19:55 -0700
The base of the left moving supercell slides off just to the east in this 15 sec exposure. We wind up with a little hook echo rain just as the updraft reaches our latitude to our east. All the lightning becomes obscured by the lower-level updraft.