June 6th, 2005 Max, North Dakota Tornadic Supercell
Last Updated on Saturday, 09 January 2010 17:59 Written by Roger Hill
This was a tough one for me. We left Denver early this AM with a target of Dickenson, ND. After almost 800 miles, we arrived to see 3 high based storms get their act together. Strong moisture return ahead of a short wave trough would provide lift to get these storms going. In spite of only upper 50s dewpoints, these 3 storms turned into supercells, with the southern storm, near Max, ND our target. We arrived as the storm was a beautiful saucer base with clear slot. A couple of funnels formed and extended close to the ground. Close enough I would consider this tornadic.
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Nice stack of plates with in flow band streaming in from the east. What a gorgeous storm!!!
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The Max, ND supercell as we blasted QUICKLY to get in front of it. Beautiful backsheared anvil with rock hard updraft meant business.
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Incredible structure of this mature classic supercell. Notice the vault region to the right of the updraft.
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View from the east looking west towards the updraft, with nice clear slot and rotating wall cloud.
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Long, snaking elephant trunk funnel.
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Funnel extends over halfway to the ground.
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Highly sheared over LP storm forms just before sunset west of the first storm.
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Another low rotating wall cloud about 20 minutes after funnel dissipates.
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