Identifying these photos

[Mike Deep]

I've shot a handful of curious weather photos over the last several years. Not being a chaser or a meteorologist, I've refrained from attempting to give them definitive IDs, opting instead for general descriptions like "severe thunderstorm." Can anyone shed some light on what each of these may be?

(Note these are not "chases," these storms came to me.)

July 9, 2007. Deansboro, NY - Looking East, high angle. Severe warned. (See also strange looping funnel)

June 23, 2008. Deansboro, NY - Looking South. Severe warned.

June 24, 2008. Odessa, FL - Looking Southeast.

July 2, 2008. Odessa, FL - Looking Northeast.

 

[Skip Talbot]

Your first photo reminds me of looking up into the vault of a supercell:

I'm not sure if that's what is going on in your shot though. Its a little hard to get my bearings from that photo.

Your second photo looks like its the rain free, updraft base of the storm. It reminds me a little of this shot:
http://skip.cc/chase/080604/08060409.jpg
or maybe this one:
http://skip.cc/chase/090607/09060705.jpg

I have no idea on the third shot. It looks like there are wispy fragments of cumulus with a rather clear area in the foreground and what looks like a dark precipitation core in the background. Not sure if I can label that as any kind of definable structure.

Your last shot is the most classic presentation of structure that I can identify. There is a rain free base on the left side of the image, the precipitation core on the right side, and a lowering right at the interface between the two. This lowering is probably a small wall cloud. Your position and angle is classic for observing this structure as well.

 

[Scott Weberpal]

#1 looks like the underside of a cold gust front passage.
#2 looks like rain-free updraft base
#3 looks like inflow stingers
#4 looks exactly like Skip describe.

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

Storm Structure 101

Anybody that has seen Mike H's "Storm Structure 101" should be able to recognize all of those photos!

 

[Steven Marshall]

Where would one FIND Mikes Storm Structure 101??

 

[Skip Talbot]

Where would one FIND Mikes Storm Structure 101??

http://extremeinstability.com/stormstructure101.htm