Evolution: Stock photos that show the evolution of cloud features with a thunderstorm complex. The clouds or sequences reveal the storm's history or future state and structure.

  • Storm evolution: severe burst phase when a large updraft dome rises
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  • The back of a flanking line axis in an evolving storm cloud line
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  • Cloud updraft evolution: a tall updraft burst
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  • A mesoscale outflow boundary behind a cluster of storms
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  • Severe storm cloud evolution: sharp wedge-shaped forward edge
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  • Evolution of convection, with early stage anvils along a cold front
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  • Clouds show the life-cycle stages of storm evolution
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  • A splitting supercell storm with left mover and right mover
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  • Clouds can foretell the weather: large-scale lift or cooling aloft
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  • The storm cloud environment has something new and something old
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  • Previous phases of a thunderstorm: bright anvil flange and ghost anvil
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  • A cluster of Cumulus Congestus clouds building into a storm
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  • Multicell storm cloud evolution: second phase of strong new growth
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  • A multicell thunderstorm type evolves as a series of stronger phases
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  • Severe storm cloud devolution: crude beaver tail
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  • As the cap is breaking along the dryline Towering Cumulus build
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  • A severe storm is being born as a small Cumulonimbus pulls together
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  • Quickly building storm without a lowering, just before going severe
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  • Energetic convection shows that the atmosphere is primed for storms
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  • Early convection in pre-storm situation: Cumulus Congestus cluster
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