Wall clouds / lowerings: Stock photos of all wall clouds (mesocyclones) and cloud base lowerings associated with supercells and weaker storms. This is the inflow region (main updraft) feeding up into a severe storm cloud complex.

  • Moistened air in strong new updrafts causes abrupt condensation
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  • Focused storm inflow is indicated low cloud close to the ground
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  • An irregular lowering due to changing moistness of rising air
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  • A developing supercell storm with loosely circular lower clouds
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  • Supercell with lightning at night with a ragged wall cloud
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  • A typical cloud base lowering under a shower’s rain-free base
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  • Very close view of a cloud shaped by rotation and abrupt wind shift
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  • Mini beaver tail on a storm updraft base
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  • This wall cloud is beginning to elongate toward the left
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  • Close view of an partially formed rotating wall cloud
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  • A wall cloud with weak rotation feeding air into a supercell
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  • Wall cloud air motion: inflow and outflow
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  • Close view of a circular wall cloud with typical tail
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  • A wall cloud appears below the mesocyclone of a supercell
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  • Supercell storm with a crude wall cloud where inflow air spirals up
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  • Scud joins a storm in a wedge shape and is a developing lowering
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  • A wall cloud steps down from the storm base to form a pedestal cloud
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  • Brilliant lightning with an illuminated laminar wall cloud
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  • Close encounter with a large and terrifying wedge tornado
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  • The large, rotating mesocyclone of a supercell storm
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