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.

3 June 2013 Booker, TX Supercell

Lapser Mike Olbinski captured this amazing set of scenes of a high-based, dusty supercell traversing the north Texas Panhandle plains near Booker. It is truly a beautiful lapse ... illustrating the awe-inspiring grandeur of storm observation in the High Plains.

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.

18 May 2010 Dumas, TX Supercell Tail Cloud

A very short lapse (via Jason Montano) revealing a cool illustration of a tail cloud, or a a ragged band of cloud and cloud tags (fractus) emanating from forward flank downdraft and directed toward, and attached to, the wall cloud.

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:

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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.

19 June 2011 Kansas Supercell

Chaser Scott Currens captured this nice lapse of a supercell and attendant funnel near White City, KS.  Amazing rotation and structure!

Mesoscale Accident

Jim LaDue provides an interesting perspective to the 29 May 2012 tornado event northwest of Oklahoma City. As he states: "Meteorologists often refer to a mesoscale accident in the context that tornadoes can occur even when the environment surrounding the storm is unfavorable for their occurrence. On 2012 May 29, this is what happened when a gust front from a left-moving supercell to the south collided with a right-moving supercell dropping southeast from Kingfisher, OK. The result was tornado genesis. This video shows the base of the right-moving supercell start to rapidly rotate and start to wrap precipitation around the center. The tornado revealed itself just after the end of this video."  My blog entry on this event is here.

 

March 2012 Oklahoma Supercell

Zac Flamig captured this cool lapse of a western Oklahoma supercell on 18 March 2012.

French Supercell

Beautiful lapse segment of a supercell near Ecrainville, France on 16 July 2009.

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.

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.