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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
