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.

  • Curved bands of cloud reveal the mesocyclone of a supercell
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  • Mesocyclone and wall cloud with lightning at night
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  • Two cloud lowerings below the mesocyclone on a small supercell
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  • Scud fragments below a storm mesocyclone dance in a circle
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  • Small lowering under a storm cloud base
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  • Rotating wall cloud on an HP high-precipitation supercell
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  • Wall cloud inflow tails point toward the outflow source (rain)
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  • Scud lifts into developing wall cloud
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  • Close view of a large circular wall cloud (almost overhead)
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  • A supercell lowering tightening into a wall cloud
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  • A storm updraft is beginning to rotate and mature this wall cloud
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  • A newly-formed, tapered lowering under a storm’s base
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  • This looks like a lowering because of the illusion of perspective
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  • A supercell mesocyclone develops a wall cloud with tail cloud
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  • A new cloud forms, with a lowering on its updraft base
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  • A large storm cloud base lowering shoved forward by outflow air
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  • A concave cloud base on a supercell is good evidence of rotation
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  • An LP supercell with a “barber pole” mesocyclone updraft structure
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  • Overview of a compact supercell thunderstorm with wall cloud
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  • Close view of the lowered base under a compact supercell storm
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