Thunderstorms

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Thunderstorms in July 2002
(Photographs copyright Eye On The Sky)

Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
Much of the country was seeing sunny spells and scattered, heavy thunderstorms. The next series of images shows a huge storm over the Cheshire Plain, as viewed from Hope mountain in NE Wales. This first image shows the developing storm in the distance.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
As the cloud begins to develop, keep an eye on the left hand portion of the storm, as the top initially flattens to form a superb spreading anvil, before another thrust sends a massive overshooting top skywards.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
With the anvil well defined, the overshoot becomes more extensive, blasting up hundreds of metres above the freezing level, characterizing the strength of this storm.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
As the overshoot runs out of steam, another cell erupts to the north-west flank of the storm. This soon became the new fuel for the storm, dwarfing the existing overshoot.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
More storms were brewing up to the south-east of the main system. Here, a towering congestus tower begins to flatten and spread with the prevailing wind, northwards.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
Another shot of this mini atomic bomb congestus, as it continues to spread northwards on the strong upper level winds.
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Date: 10th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
A 9-photo combined landscape image looking from north, around to east, and finishing looking south. This image shows how long lines of storms were developing along a convergence line. A larger EOTS Panomotion version of this image is availabe here (requires Java applet).
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Date: 11th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
The next day becomes lively once again, and across the Cheshire Plain, a squall line begins to set up that would later deliver thunderstorms and hail to eastern parts of the country.
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Date: 11th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
As the squall line becomes deeper and more organised, in the distance I spot a lowering in the main cell centre, which could well have been an attempt at a funnel cloud (centre of picture)
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Date: 11th July 2002 Location: Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales.
A close up of the suggested funnel lowering, before it became wrapped in sheets of rain and lost from view.
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