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.

  • A tilted wall cloud on a passing gust front
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  • Close view of an incomplete cloud lowering under an updraft
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  • Close view of a well-formed wall cloud with a tail cloud
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  • This dark flanking line axis of a severe storm has a circular wall cloud
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  • Cloud lowering under a storm base beneath a strong, new updraft
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  • wall cloud with a long inflow tail pointing back toward the rain
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  • Wall cloud and clear slot from rear flank downdraft (RFD)
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  • Weakening HP supercell with an elongated wall cloud
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  • An HP high precipitation supercell with a wall cloud under the base
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  • Large and very low wall cloud on a rotating mesocyclone
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  • A storm cloud lowering is forming as scud gathers below storm base
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  • This cloud base is at the condensations level and is not a lowering
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  • Clouds and rain show the relationship between inflow and outflow
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  • A ragged, weakening wall cloud has become flatter and less compact
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  • A high precipitation (HP) supercell with scud gathering into a lowering
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  • Scud joining the base are the first signs of developing wall cloud
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  • A classic (CL) supercell severe storm mesocyclone
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  • Severe storm forward flank inflow clouds
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  • Supercell in transition with a circular lowering taking shape
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  • An elongated mesocyclone with a rain-free base in concentric layers
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