Terraced Shelf Cloud

[gdlewen]

Early afternoon surprise, courtesy of the nice folks in Kansas: a very dynamic multi-tiered shelf cloud rolled in.



A few minutes later--everything is different:



(Owasso, OK looking north. Cell phone pictures stitched with Hugin.)

 

[Mike Smith]

Kansas had another event this afternoon and it turned out to be rather bizarre. Another Bizarre NWS Tornado Warning Situation

 

[gdlewen]

Kansas had another event this afternoon and it turned out to be rather bizarre. Another Bizarre NWS Tornado Warning Situation

I saw that--followed it with interest, and planned to start an EVENT thread to discuss it after I complete some of my own analysis to make sure of what I do and do not understand.