Cycling Supercell: SRSO and Lightning Jumps.

Using SRSO suspected that a supercell would become long lived as it seems to have a continued low-level, moist inflow into the storm visible via low level cu field and surface obs. The storm exhibited a cycling of pulses through Douglas Co which were evident via SRSO (Fig 1) and and  subsequent lightning jumps (Fig 2). This provided some validation that this cell would cycle and it could be seen in the lightning jump pulsing. –Cattywampus.

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Fig 1.  (gif loop) Super-rapid scan, with pulsing super cell through Douglas Co.

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Fig 2. (gif loop) Lightning jump with the supercell.

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