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Offline Bunty

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An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« on: June 27, 2013, 10:51:35 PM »
When photo below was taken, I was walking/jogging the 3.5 mile trail around Boomer Lake Park in Stillwater, while from time to time watching a storm's advance upon the town.  I had my back turned to the storm only a short while, turned around and wow, across the northwestern sky some mighty ominous looking cloud structures typically associated with an approaching storm had really impressively come to develop. (Notice the smooth layering effect of the upper clouds.)  A few minutes after picture was taken, a strong gust front suddenly blew in.  Fortunately, no downpour came with it, so ran back to my car dry, while chuckling at the other park visitors doing the same thing.  At the local airport, the wind got up to 52 mph.  At my station:  48 mph for a record breaking high for the year.  Other than the wind, the storm had no other severe characteristics, or much rain.


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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2013, 11:10:01 PM »
pancaking layers they are called
due to very strong upper level winds , intefering with the updrafts
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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2013, 11:22:34 PM »
pancaking layers they are called
due to very strong upper level winds , interfering with the updrafts

Interesting.  It's probably known as a shelf cloud as well.  Only a small portion of it, the right end is shown.  Showing the middle of it wouldn't look so dramatic. 

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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2013, 11:31:13 PM »
That literally formed over me at around 3:30pm and moved SE. It was 108 and a gust came and temp went to 89.




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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 12:03:52 AM »
Thank you very much for sharing this very interesting photo and the back story that went with it
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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 03:26:00 PM »
yup,shelf cloud is another name
e.g associated with a gust front/outflow boundary too
interesting there was no precipitation..but not have had enough height (but also the strong updrafts would have kept the rain drops suspended)
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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 03:29:31 PM »
yup,shelf cloud is another name
e.g associated with a gust front/outflow boundary too
interesting there was no precipitation..but not have had enough height (but also the strong updrafts would have kept the rain drops suspended)

When it formed over me I just got a few drops then the wind and temp drop. That was it.




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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2013, 07:28:37 PM »
yup,shelf cloud is another name
e.g associated with a gust front/outflow boundary too
interesting there was no precipitation..but not have had enough height (but also the strong updrafts would have kept the rain drops suspended)

It rained .19 right after the wind blew in.  The far west side of town got .59.  Before the storm, a Facebook friend, who lives on the prairie about 20 miles to the WNW of me, messaged:  "60-75 mph wind just just went thru, heading for you now, Stillwater! Watch out! It's nasty!" And later, "Neighbors across the road are working on their roof in the dark.  I'm thinking the wind caused a bit of damage out here.. yikes!"

Meanwhile, later, a neighbor across the street from me had a tree limb fall on a car parked in their driveway.  It dented the top.  

Below is a panoramic photo of how the storm looked coming in.  Other image shows top wind gusts associated with this line of storms. Infamous KFOR-TV weatherman, "Go South!", Mike Morgan on the 6pm newscast thought the line wouldn't make it very far across Oklahoma, due to it getting choked off by a cap and sunset.  He was right.



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Re: An Approaching Oklahoma Severe Storm
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2013, 05:34:39 AM »
Beautiful shelf cloud