Severe Weather Threat June 15-23

[Kds86z]

Amazing also that Enderlin was not a long-tracker. It’s path was less than 15 miles and down only about 20 minutes.

Gosh, I forgot to mention this. Shortest track eF5 someone on X said.

 

[Brice W]

Amazing also that Enderlin was not a long-tracker. It’s path was less than 15 miles and down only about 20 minutes.

Yeah on top of that, does anybody know how it became a wedge in that short time frame? I know wedges can form from a multi vortex structure but I haven’t really seen any documentation if it was a large cone that descended or a large multi vortex.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Yeah on top of that, does anybody know how it became a wedge in that short time frame? I know wedges can form from a multi vortex structure but I haven’t really seen any documentation if it was a large cone that descended or a large multi vortex.

Tornadoes can "wedge out" very quickly. Per one of the few clear videos that exists of it, Joplin went from wispy multiple vortices to churning black wedge in less than a minute.

I've even seen it myself. Per the timestamps on the pictures in my phone; Keota went from this (white nub above the dust cloud just behind the tree line, with the original Ottumwa EF3 behind it):



...to this in less than four minutes:

 

[Brice W]

Tornadoes can "wedge out" very quickly. Per one of the few clear videos that exists of it, Joplin went from wispy multiple vortices to churning black wedge in less than a minute.

I've even seen it myself. Per the timestamps on the pictures in my phone; Keota went from this (white nub above the dust cloud just behind the tree line, with the original Ottumwa EF3 behind it):

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...to this in less than four minutes:

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Yeah, I know they do tend to form very quickly in some cases, Elmer 2015 formed rapidly into a wedge. 2016 Sulphur did the same thing. And that shot you got still amazes me. I just didn’t see any documentation of its formation. Most if not all videos or pictures show it as the mile-wide wedge.

 

[sripey]

Tornadoes can "wedge out" very quickly. Per one of the few clear videos that exists of it, Joplin went from wispy multiple vortices to churning black wedge in less than a minute.

I've even seen it myself. Per the timestamps on the pictures in my phone; Keota went from this (white nub above the dust cloud just behind the tree line, with the original Ottumwa EF3 behind it):

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...to this in less than four minutes:

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Great photos @CheeselandSkies!