June 7th, 2005 South Dakota Badlands Supercell & Tornado
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 00:07 Written by Roger Hill
June 7 looked like a big tornado day in South Dakota. By the end of the day, it would be disappointing from the aspect, but the supercell I caught that day was special. The structure was phenomenal!!! This storm formed on the western end of the Badlands, and slowly tracked east/northeast towards I-90. This storm produced at least 1 tornado, and hail to 3" in diameter. The prettiest part about this supercell was the structure.
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Beautiful striated liberty bell updraft with developing tornado!!!
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Another shot of this pretty supercell.
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Awesome mamatus field.
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Developing tornado!
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Tornado!!! Nice slender elephant trunk.
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Another shot of this, now larger tornado.
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Pretty tornado here!! Starting to rope out.
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Beautiful supercell structure!!! Nice circular base, with a clear slot to the left of the precipitation core. I thought it would produce another tornado, but it didn't.
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Trying to get in front of it now. We had to drive under this strongly rotating mesocyclone that had lowered considerably.
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On the east side of the udpraft now a large HP supercell. Notice what looks like a saw blade appearance in the middle of the storm structure.
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