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10 May 2014 Climax, KS Supercells

One of the more beautiful supercell lapses captured, this set of scenes illustrates a couple of slow-moving "naked" supercells traversing the southeast Kansas landscape in May 2014. Shot by the very talented Stephen Locke.

6 September 2014 Catalonia, Spain Convection

Oscar van der Velde captured this lapse of a multicell complex in Castellgalí, Catalonia, Spain.

"Wyoming Wildscapes II"

Nicolaus Wegner provides this stunning movie of lapses captured over 14 months in arguably one of the most scenic states in the U.S. The last half of the movie has some of the best storm lapses I've seen. Enjoy!

15 November 2013 Australian Supercell

James Chambers of brisbanestorms.com provides this stunning lapse of a supercell near Gold Coast, Australia.

Lake Thunderbird, OK Convective Fog

Jim LaDue captured this lake-effect "steam fog" event in Oklahoma during one of the early-season, cool-air outbreaks that spread across the central U.S. The lapse provides useful illustrations of phase changes, mixing processes, and how lakes and oceans can engender precipitation.

"The 2013 Arizona Monsoon"

Mike Olbinski has produced this spectacular time-lapse summary of the 2013 Arizona monsoon.

"May (2013) on the Great Plains"

Enjoy this well-produced summary of Skip Talbot's May 2013 chasing exploits. Don't forget to check out Skip's perspective of the 2013 El Reno tornado, as well.

31 May 2013 El Reno, OK Supercell and Tornadoes

Masterful lapser Skip Talbot does a wonderful job distilling the El Reno tragedy with this lapse-focused short. Good job, Skip!

Addendum ... below is Skip's analysis of this horrific event.

8 May 2013 Paducah, TX Storm

James Langford has been producing some stunning lapses lately. This one, captured in the northwest Texas plains, is a beautiful illustration of a storm, its updraft with tentacles beneath, exhaust, and intersecting flow traced by flat stratocu (heck, let's don't forget the rainbow!). From this perspective, anticyclonic circulation can be found due to the dynamical effects brought about by an updraft in a sheared environment. This is an atypical perspective, providing a great illustration of a storm from a potential left split view.

2009 Station Fire (LA, CA)

Brandon Riza provides this stunning lapse of the Station Fire near Los Angeles in 2009. This is perhaps the best illustration of pyrocumulus formation you'll find on the web. A lapse of the pyrocumulus tops can be found in this video.

Stationary Boundary and Convective Development

This short lapse segment photographed from atop NIU's Davis Hall looking east-northeast shows a stationary boundary that promotes convective development as unseasonably warm, moist air converges, is forced upwards, reaching the level of free convection. This day also was unique in that it featured a convective shower produced by the Byron Nuclear Generating Station cooling towers. An animated gif for PPT lecture embed is provided below.

Animated gif:
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12 July 2010 Decaying Kansas LP Supercell

Chaser Stephen Locke captured these lapse segments of a midsummer, decaying LP supercell near Colby, KS.

Time Lapse of Convection from a Plane

Neat perspective of thunderstorm growth. Convection appears to be generated by a flanking line or boundary.

August 2012 DeKalb Convection

Run-of-the-mill convection in DeKalb, IL on 20 August 2012.

French Tornadic Supercell

Unbelievable lapse featuring supercell formation and tornadogensis with a beautiful foreground.

Alsace Storms

I believe my translation of this lapse description indicates this is a series of captures near Alsace, France. Cool representation of a variety of organized and unorganized convection.