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vineyardsaker
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Re: Can someone tell me what I was looking at? (warning large pic)
      Sun Jul 02 2006 08:43 PM

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I reduced and zipped up those files
http://bobbutts.mine.nu/images/reduced.zip
You can find the individual ones named reduced_* in http://bobbutts.mine.nu/images/

From digging around it appears that the feature is a rotating wall cloud.. Although much less impressive than most of the ones I saw on the net. Also according to what I read Mesocyclones are based on radar presentation, not ground observations, so doubtful that's the term I want.



Thanks a lot for the pics. I looked at them with great interest because I have observed the same thing happening several times in Volusia County. My best guess is that these are indeed clouds rotations which sometimes result in tornadoes. The fact that Mesocyclones are declared based on radar observations does not mean that groud spotters would not be able to see some cloud rotations, right? Besides, I was once told by a guy from NOAA in Melbourne that during the summer Mesocyclones are very hard to spot on radars and that many could be missed.

I hope somebody more qualifed will explain to use exactly what we saw.

Kind regards,

VS

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