Originally posted by Greg Stumpf+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Greg Stumpf)</div>
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A cap of the tornado (2nd) when it wedge'd out:
Not to nit-pick, but I've seen and heard too much misuse of the term
wedge. A wedge tornado is one that is visually wider (at the ground) than it is tall (with minimal obstructions to horizon). In this case, this is not a wedge. To illustrate - the cyan line is the widthof the tornado at the ground, and the magenta line the height of the tornado from ground to cloud base. I believe I was quite liberal on the width of the tornado at the ground (remove some horizon effects), and the tornado probably enters the cloud base in the foreground of the base "horizon", making it actually taller. Add foreshortening to that, and it is more likely that the width of the tornado is about 1/2 (or less) the distance from ground to cloud base.
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