V2 Storm Clouds Posted in VORTEX2 Gallery on June 1, 2009 by Susan Cobb. Spectacular thunderstorm and supercell clouds captured during V2 operations. Credit: Susan Cobb Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Looking southwest. Credit: NOAA/Susan Cobb Southwest. Credit: NOAA/Susan Cobb Credit: NOAA/Susan Cobb Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Credit: NOAA/NSSL/S. Waugh Mammatus clouds as the storm approaches. Credit: David Sills 2009 Texas panhandle storm near sunset. Credit: David Sills 2009 Shelf cloud with the ‘whale’s mouth’ in behind. Credit: David Sills 2009 May 20: As Storm #2 was uncercut by outflow, we saw a strange vortex from the top of a cumulus cloud upwards into the dying storm. This was rotating quite nicely for 60 seconds or so. Shortly after the whole storm all but disappeared. Credit: David Sills 2009 In the whale’s mouth. Credit: David Sills 2009 Credit: David Sills 2009 A gust-front cloud develops ahead of heavy rainfall in a tornadic thunderstorm in the Texas Panhandle on May 18, 2010.. Credit: Derek Stratman Credit: Derek Stratman Credit: Robin Tanamachi A large wall cloud arcs around a rotating thunderstorm updraft near Ogallala, Nebraska on June 6, 2010. Credit: Roger Wakimoto Credit: Robin Tanamachi Credit: Derek Stratman Credit: Derek Stratman Credit: Derek Stratman Credit: Mike Coniglio