Has anyone seen these?

[kered]

This is what Katrina looked like just before she slammed into Magee Mississippi. We have terrible storms here in Tornado Alley but I have never seen anything like these.

[kered]

Here are the last I received.

[bass]

WOW.. i used to study meteorology, and i have never seen anything like that.. those are some incredible pictures.. of course, the damage done wasnt something to be happy about.. but as far as photographic value goes, those are golden..

makes me happy to live in florida too haha.. they are saying this hurricane season is going to be worse than last year.. so far nothing, but i mean.. it could happen at anytime..

[PokeyinMich]

Pretty amazing photos Kered, thanks, I haven't seen those.

[milagros317]

I have been in hurricanes (only category 1), but I've never seen anything as scary as those pictures. Wow. :yowzer:

[BLUE_THUNDER]

i, too , was a meteorology major , in the late 90's, but ive never seen hurricane pics like this before, although this was no ordinary hurricane, a few of those pics look very much like a lowering, rotating wall cloud, similar to what you would get before a possible tornado in a supercell thunderstorm, although they look a bit different, however as we all know hurricanes can and do spawn tornadoes from their rotational patterns and drop in barometric pressure, these are some great pics i have not seen before, thanks for posting them! :Hyrdrogen

[maniactickler]

Magnificent! :yowzer:

[isabeau]

i do see a tornado in that picture, don't i?

[bugman]

I went through a hurricane in houston in 1983 and i never want to see another one.Once was more then enough.

[kered]

i do see a tornado in that picture, don't i?

Yes Izzy, that is a tornado.

[Mimi]

Dear God I'm having trouble breathing after looking at those. I'd have died of a heart attack just looking in the sky and seeing that long before the storm could have done me in.

[german]

Ok.......just one sec.........ok ok fu*k that. I cant begin to imagine what it would been like seeing that "in person"......I'm still shaking my head.

Kust

[luvgirlsfeet]

i have always been fascinated by the weather ( especially Thunderstorms ) but those pics are amazing

[Dário F]

UAU Kered, those pictures are breath taking! I hope that you never run into one of those, my friend. And i thought the weather here was bad sometimes... I wonder what one can do about to protect himself in a situation like this...

[Tamia78]

Holy Sh*t!!! That's kinda scary...I hate storms. Those are some pretty amazing photos tho.

Hold me :cry1:

[Mz Chaos]

Dear God I'm having trouble breathing after looking at those. I'd have died of a heart attack just looking in the sky and seeing that long before the storm could have done me in.
Uh huh... me too... DAMN!
I don't even think the word "Awesome" covers those pics. I have lived in three different parts of the country and been through all kinds of different weather... and I thank my lucky stars I have never been in anything like THAT!
Thanks for sharing Kered... those were... well... uh... horrifyingly amazing!

[sole seeker]

Freakin' AWESOME! :xpeepsofa

[EBunbury]

Great wall cloud pictures! Some of the best I've seen. I suspect Blue Thunder is right to be suspicious. I believe most of these are classic wall couds from supercells on the Great Plains, and the landscapes sure don't look like any part of Mississippi I know - especially that one of the rolling open country.

Still, they're very dramatic storm pictures. Makes me miss living back East!

:-) E. Bunbury

[kered]

Great wall cloud pictures! Some of the best I've seen. I suspect Blue Thunder is right to be suspicious. I believe most of these are classic wall couds from supercells on the Great Plains, and the landscapes sure don't look like any part of Mississippi I know - especially that one of the rolling open country.

Still, they're very dramatic storm pictures. Makes me miss living back East!

:-) E. Bunbury
You could be right. I've never been through Mississippi so I don't know the landscape. But as a surviver of the Palm Sunday Tornado and many others here in Indiana, I have never seen a storm roll in like this.

[Cave In]

Those photo's are amazing, the storm chasers that no doubt took those photo's are brave people.

[DannyMc]

EBunbury , how wide would the base of the eye be on a 750 mile wide hurricane ?

[TklDuo-Ann]

Awesome photos! I agree with the consensus. I think they're more likely classic super cell configurations. I love the strata in those showing the layers and movement of the storms. Absolutely gorgeous. Not sure how close I'd want to get. But, if I knew there was a safe place to watch from, I'd be there in a heartbeat. I just love storms! There's something about them that fascinates me. Thanks for the pics!

Ann

[kered]

UAU Kered, those pictures are breath taking! I hope that you never run into one of those, my friend. And i thought the weather here was bad sometimes... I wonder what one can do about to protect himself in a situation like this...

We have a saying here in the Midwest, Dario, that when you see something as terrible as this about to hit you, " Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye!" If you haven't left the area, whatever happens to you is your own fault.

[Dário F]

We have a saying here in the Midwest, Dario, that when you see something as terrible as this about to hit you, " Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye!" If you haven't left the area, whatever happens to you is your own fault.

I'll remember that Kered. ;)

[CitY of MicA]

Excuse me for my remarks in light of the devastation that this storm caused, but those are beautiful pictures. I particularly liked the 'blue sky' in the first pic in your second post, Kered. I've seen storms roll in on the river where you have an incredible perspective and can see for miles, but I've never seen anything like what's documented in those pictures. That's one hell of a storm!

[EBunbury]

EBunbury , how wide would the base of the eye be on a 750 mile wide hurricane ?

I'm not sure what the records are, bur small eyes are typically 5 to 10 miles across, big ones can be 40 or 50 miles. Their size isn't so much related to the size of the hurricane, but to the wind speed and organization; strong, well-organized storms often are marked by large, open eyes. Of course, the eyes are open areas, often cloud-free.

I've only been in two eyes. One was rather disorganized, winds still gusting to around 20 mph, with scattered clouds and a cirrus overcast, but the other was impressive. It was late afternoon. The storm had started with gusty winds and a few thundershowers near dawn, with tropical storm force winds in the morning, spattered with rain squalls. By noon, winds were hurricane force. As we entered the eye that afternoon, winds dropped from 80 to 10 within a minute, and five minutes later it was dead calm and clear. Local radar was still operating, and as we knew we had about an hour in the eye, my dad and I went outside to clean up and brace a leaning fence before the winds returned from the opposite direction.

It was absolutely eerie. Temperatures had been pleasant, now suddenly it was hot, calm, and muggy - rather oppressive. Looking up was killer! It was like being in the bottom of well about 12 miles across. The vertical eyewall was all around us, with blue sky overhead. The clouds of the eyewall were white, towering 40,000 to 50,000 feet, and if we watched, we could see the whole structure rotating around us. With the storm moving at 14 mph, we had just under an hour to make repairs and prepare for the other half. We finished up, helped some neighbors pull a small tree off a car and brace it where the returning winds would keep it wedged against two other trees, then we all just watched.

As the eyewall approached, we could hear the wind coming. We couldn't bring ourselves to go inside. We moved to where we would have a clear view upwind so we could dodge debris, and rode the return. It was spooky watching that bright white wall of cloud coming toward us, dotted with convection heads along the inner wall. There was a 10 or 15 mph gust, then within a minute or so, the wind was back to 80, with heavy rain. We hunched down, got back to the door, and waited out the back half of the storm.

It was a memorable and majestic experience. Very different from the supercell thuderstorms in these pictures, but with the same feel of power and exhiliration!

:-) E. Bunbury

[DannyMc]

Thanks E Bunbury for answering my question and that story , I felt like I was there seeing myself . It sure must of been quite a site to see . Mother nature can be filled with fury indeed .