This very short MPEG movie shows a lowering of the cloud base of a severe thunderstorm over the far western portion of the city of Tucson, Arizona. This movie was created from a series of digital still pictures where I was trying to capture the clouds and lightning, so the movie is fairly choppy. It may show a simple lowering of the cloud base, a wall cloud, or a funnel cloud. It was associated with a "swirl" in the winds of the storm as it passed over south Tucson and then into the Tucson mountains. Taken about 1:00 am on the morning of August 8, 2005. There are 12 frames to the movie and each frame represents roughly 20 seconds of elapsed time or about 4 minutes from start to finish.
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Tucson Wall Cloud Movie
This very short MPEG movie shows a lowering of the cloud base of a severe thunderstorm over the far western portion of the city of Tucson, Arizona. This movie was created from a series of digital still pictures where I was trying to capture the clouds and lightning, so the movie is fairly choppy. It may show a simple lowering of the cloud base, a wall cloud, or a funnel cloud. It was associated with a "swirl" in the winds of the storm as it passed over south Tucson and then into the Tucson mountains. Taken about 1:00 am on the morning of August 8, 2005. There are 12 frames to the movie and each frame represents roughly 20 seconds of elapsed time or about 4 minutes from start to finish.
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