Adam Boggs
EF0
I was just putting together some of my storm chase web pages and ran across a feature I caught on one of them. I was wondering if someone could help me identify it. While the picture does not provide a good perspective on the rest of the storm, I saw this off the back of the storm in what looked like a band of clouds being sucked in. It was not directly under the updraft itself. The storm was back building, and I suppose it is possible that there was rapid new development above where this feature emerged that I could not see through the cloud base. There was rotation evident, though it's hard to see from the short video clip I took. The photo is taken looking southeast and the core of the storm is off the left of the image. Also evident in this storm were large "horizontal" circulations on the back as can be seen is some of the other images.
My hypothesis is that it is an incipient landspout or landspout funnel. Does this seem accurate? Any other possibilities? More pictures of the storm can be seen here:
http://www.aircrafter.org/boggs/stormchasing/2007-05-26
Thanks,
-Adam Boggs
My hypothesis is that it is an incipient landspout or landspout funnel. Does this seem accurate? Any other possibilities? More pictures of the storm can be seen here:
http://www.aircrafter.org/boggs/stormchasing/2007-05-26
Thanks,
-Adam Boggs