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Here's one to study...tornado???

Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins

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001CATERS-Amazing-Storm-01_001810.jpg


From Yahoo news:

"This is the terrifying moment a cloud threatened to develop into a full blown TORNADO over a row of family homes. Brave snapper Pat Kavanagh took this shot of an explosive black storm from the roof of his house in Taber, Canada last month. Expecting the sunny weather to take a turn for the worse he watched intently as the billows started spinning into a furious funnel. This pic was created by stitching together multiple photographs in a vertical panorama. (Photo: PAT KAVANAGH / CATERS NEWS)"


update: the link I gave has changed images now, so use the link in post #2 from tjkleckner.
 
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Indeterminate to my eye. I don't see much sign of rotation to the storm, plus the most likely location for any tornado isn't with the precip shaft in the center of the photo, but low and to the right. On the whole the storm looks very pretty, but rather outflowish and not all that beefy.
 
I agree. The area to the right would draw my attention, but the only thing I really see in the photo is a cumulus congestus that is approaching or has reached Cb stage. The image is photoedited to the point where it appears contrived and resembles a painting. I don't entirely trust it--the storm looks like it's being viewed from the west, particularly with the rainbow, and seems like it ought to be moving away from me, not toward me. Maybe it is. I'd want to see other images of the same cell that give me less sublimity and more structural detail.
 
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TJKLECKNER said:
Here is the image:
http://media.zenfs.com/208/2011/08/05/001CATERS-Amazing-Storm-01_001810.jpg
The image is HUGE.....so I just provided the link
Click to expand...

Thanks for posting the additional link, yes that's the image.

I agree with the observations Mr. Wolfson and Mr. Hartig added. I was straining to see where this image showed any obvious tornadic activity from that distance. My impetus for making the post was the accompanying news text portraying it as something it didn't seem to be.
 
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Looks like a nice HDR shot to me. I do see the suspicious feature on the right, but unless my eyes are being fooled by the angle of the lens, that storm looks too small/short to be producing such a large tornado. It's probably just rain or a rain shadow.
 
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