Skylapse.org: 26 May 2012 LaCrosse, KS Tornado

Chaser Scott Currens put together this slideshow (creating a sort of choppy, but interesting, time lapse) of the 47-minute lifecycle of a tornado northwest of LaCrosse, KS. The tornado developed at 9:16 pm and dissipated at 10:03 pm.

Marla Bickler has a much closer view of the lengthy tornadogenesis mode ... I suggest a "mute" unless you like 80s movies.

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.