Severe Weather 2026

[Kds86z]

Latest day 1

WIDESPREAD SMOKE FROM UPSTREAM FIRES WILL ALSO SOMEWHAT
LIMIT DAYTIME HEATING TODAY, ALTHOUGH THE EXTENT OF THE COOLING IS
UNCERTAIN.

 

[WeathermanLeprechaun]

https://talkweather.com/threads/severe-weather-thread-7-14-26.2547/

Don't think it should've took until today to make this but I realized nobody else did, so all discussion goes here.

@mods

 

[jiharris0220]

Best view of all of the parts of a supercell to date IMO, captured by OTIS
The dark blue (RFD), dark red (FFI), tornado (black), wall cloud (yellow), mesocyclone (green), dry slot (red), inflow tail (blue), updraft and streamwise vorticity (purple) and the clean cut anvil (orange) are all easily visible.
The rainbow and the tornado being over a lake of course if all of that wasn’t enough.

 

[joshoctober16]

Best view of all of the parts of a supercell to date IMO, captured by OTIS
The dark blue (RFD), dark red (FFI), tornado (black), wall cloud (yellow), mesocyclone (green), dry slot (red), inflow tail (blue), updraft and streamwise vorticity (purple) and the clean cut anvil (orange) are all easily visible.
The rainbow and the tornado being over a lake of course if all of that wasn’t enough.
View attachment 54140

streamwise vorticity position is wrong , would be pointing towards the camera , behind the tornado where the tail cloud would be at.

 

[jiharris0220]

streamwise vorticity position is wrong , would be pointing towards the camera , behind the tornado where the tail cloud would be at.

Erm, no, the stream wise vorticity current is usually located just south of the precip shield of the supercell, where the warm conveyor belt is located. The point of ingestion is where this warm conveyor belt (or proto warm front if you want to call it) meets up with the RFD front, which is usually south or southeast of the updraft.

Obviously, they’re exceptions to this and really depends on the location of the baroclinic boundary, which can be located via the tail cloud, which is why I put it where I did.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Anti-Freeze]

Tornado warning north of San Antonio, to go with the ton of rain that region has received recently. Flooding, washouts, and rescues in the Texas hill country the last couple of days. I haven't followed closely, but saw last night that near Uvalde, TX had gotten 12 inches in 1 day.

 

[joshoctober16]

Erm, no, the stream wise vorticity current is usually located just south of the precip shield of the supercell, where the warm conveyor belt is located. The point of ingestion is where this warm conveyor belt (or proto warm front if you want to call it) meets up with the RFD front, which is usually south or southeast of the updraft.

Obviously, they’re exceptions to this and really depends on the location of the baroclinic boundary, which can be located via the tail cloud, which is why I put it where I did.

SWVC tends to come from the forward flank boundary , you put it at the RFD boundary

 

[JPWX]

Oooh this could get interesting..... I'm just here for the spicy storm bickering