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Low-Top Supercells - March 12, 2012, Michigan

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Channel: marshallbs · 2012 · Film & Animation

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Intercepting two "mini-supercell" storms, each with a visible wall cloud.  The first was near the intersection of interstate 96 and state route 66.  The second was a storm that previously had a tornado warning.  I broke out of the rain directly beneath a nice lowering just north of Charlotte on state route 50.  

There's some suspicious rotary motion with the small specs of cloud seen on the right end of the lowering between 4:30 and 5:30.  Not quite willing to call it a funnel, but it was in the right spot for one to form.

These storms didn't look very impressive as they were very low-topped (25 - 30 thousand feet max) underneath the dynamic tropopause lowering associated with the upper low.  Not a whole lot of lighting either but there was some small hail.  Despite the weak/shallow CAPE profile there was quite impressive dynamics with enough shear and helicity to make any showers that formed rotate.

Skip to 6:30 to see the speed up video of the wall cloud.

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