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.

7 May 2014 Red River Supercell

VortexChasers.net provide this time-lapse of a nice supercell that traversed the Red River (of the south).

"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.

28 May 2013 Julesburg, CO Supercell

A short -- but amazing! -- lapse of a low-precipitation supercell near Julesburg, CO on 28 May 2013 as captured by Brad Hannon.

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.

14 April 2012 Nebraska Tornado

This lapse shows what was essentially the only northern play on an eventful day in the central and southern Great Plains.  Most of the tornado outbreak was clustered in central Kansas and northwest Oklahoma.

The short segments in the lapse show the view near Atlanta, NE, where we watched the supercell string out, produce an elongated clear slot complete with persistent slant funnel. Eventually, the low-level meso cycled, producing another slanted funnel that eventually tilted vertically producing a photogenic tornado. This tornado had more in common visually with a landspout, but was unequivocally due to low-level mesocyclone processes in a relatively weak supercell. This "Harlan County" tornado only lasted 3-4 minutes, but was a visual treat considering how cold the inflow was into the storm. After tornadolysis, the supercell continued northeast into an increasingly less buoyant atmosphere thanks to the rain-cooled air from the eastward progressing MCS now in Iowa. If the environment had even just a touch more instability, I suspect we would have had a handful of potentially strong tornadoes in this vorticity rich environment. A few animated gifs for lecture embeds follow. Additional stills and radar imagery are available on my storm chase blog.

  

Animated gifs:

2012.04.14_Atlanta_Tornado_1.gif [wide angle]

2012.04.14_Atlanta_Tornado_2.gif [RFD perspective]

2012.04.14_Atlanta_Tornado_3_large.gif [large gif of tornado]

2012.04.14_Atlanta_Tornado_3_small.gif [smaller gif of tornado]

14 April 2012 Timken, KS Supercell/Tornado

This lapse begins with a supercell structure perspective and zooms toward the wall cloud/clear slot cut during tornadogenesis.

16 July 2011 North Dakota Tornado

This tripoded lapse by Mark Rosengarten is a great example(s) of tornadogenesis and tornadolysis. Shot near Bowden, ND in July 2011. Note: I suggest you click "mute" for a classroom audience.

25 May 2012 Russell, KS Supercell/Rope Tornado

Brandon Vincent captured this segment near Russell, KS on 25 May 2012. The lapse includes clear slot/RFD, wall cloud, tornadogenesis, and dramatic rope.

29 May 2012 Piedmont, OK Supercell/Tornado

This lapse shows the life cycle of a northwest Oklahoma supercell that waited to produce a tornado until its last gasp -- soon after it interacted with the gust front from a northward moving, left-split supercell. Full details of the chase are available on my storm chase blog. I've created four animated gifs that can be included in PPT lectures to illustrate supercell features, including: RFD/clear slot, rotation, base, feeder bands, cyclonic/anticyclonic couplet, tornadogenesis, etc.  SPC's Severe Event Archive available here.

Animated gifs:

2012.05.29.Piedmont.Supercell.a.gif

2012.05.29.Piedmont.Supercell.b.gif

2012.05.29.Piedmont.Supercell.c.gif

2012.05.29.Piedmont.Supercell.d.gif

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.

7 August 2010 Minnesota Tornado

The late Andy Gabrielson captured this summer tornado in western Minnesota.  The video sequence illustrates a near perfect view of tornadogenesis.

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.

7 November 2011 southwest OK Supercell/Tornadoes

Justin Terveen compiled this cool, storm-scale structure filled lapse of a supercell and tornadoes in southwest OK on 7 November 2011.

18 July 2012 Wadena, SK Supercell and Tornadoes

NIU alumnus and good friend, Victor Gensini, has a rather long lapse created from a number of sequences of a Saskatchewan supercell and attendant tornadoes. His blog post detailing this day is here.

14 April 2012 Crawford, KS Tornado

A very neat lapse of the rearside of a mesocyclone and attendant tornado -- created using a GoPro camera. John Peters has a similar perspective here.

Valentine, NE Supercell

Roger Hill captured this stunning lapse of a huge supercell that traversed the SD-NE border on 13 July 2009.

Campo Tornado

Janek Zimmer captured this amazing lapse near the infamous 31 May 2010 Campo, CO tornado.

Topeka Supercell

On 21 May 2011, storm chaser Chad Cowan documented this extremely photogenic supercell in northeast Kansas. My perspective of this storm is available here.