Overview: Stock photos with a wide view of the severe storm environment clouds showing the various parts and how they relate to each other.

  • Convective cloud elements are mapped from birth to death of a storm
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  • The back side of a line of thunderstorms with spreading anvils
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  • Early convection: Acc become elevated thunderstorm clouds
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  • Arcus from forward pressure from outflow as a squall line nears
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  • Vertical structure of a severe supercell storm cloud
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  • The storm environment often presents great contrasts or extremes
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  • Severe storm cloud features: flanking line, core lowering, scud
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  • The perfect anvil of a thunderhead looms like a mushroom cloud
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  • Convection at all stages fills the view in this midday flush of activity
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  • A shaded storm sends out fingers of frozen anvil cloud
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  • Approaching storm cloud features: flanking line and mamma
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  • A storm is sending clues about its severity in its sharp anvil
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  • A dominant storm controls nearby clouds, flattening weaker Cumulus
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  • A multicell storm type has formed a thunderhead with a hard anvil
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  • A storm cloud with structure which is simple but efficient
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  • The lifted condensation level and the level of free convection
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  • Higher, flat clouds in the cool air behind a passing thunderstorm
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  • This circular Cumulonimbus shows the vertical structure of a storm
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  • A squall line is weakening as buoyancy decreases in the evening air
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  • Storm crowns with Velum, a Cumulonimbus accessory cloud type
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