Oct 17, 2007 Ontario Stormchase/Cold Core
 

Was a good day for October!
Long lived cold core that I intercepted North of London took me quite a distance away from town. I had to head ENE to keep up.

The chase began with an interesting event, an updraft formed fast ahead of the main line. it looked like something from a warm front not a cold core.
This shot is me looking up its north side.

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As I approach a sinking motion becomes apparent on the backside, I'm driving south because I overshot how far north I wanted to go. durr

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Here a small area of rotation persisted for a few minutes before falling apart. It had some decent speed to it, no funnel though.

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The updraft began to fall apart after that, also the gust front was catching up behind me now from the west

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Now under the original updraft, this was my view looking straight up. Some rotation still was going on slowly.

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This had some kind of horizontal tube in it, but fell apart fast.
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This feature was rotating, had a circular shape inflow tail and lasted around half an hour changing shape, so I want to call it a wall cloud. I still think it was odd though forming from a cold core right next to a weak gust front...

Here it is early on
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About 20 minutes later it had become this! With good rotation and inflow tail still, the side on the right of the image had the most intense motions.
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Here it was about ten minutes later, a lot weaker than before but still spinning a bit
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Southern edge of the core had a neat feature on it now and LOTS of cg's
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another 15 minutes or so later the dying wall cloud made one final appearance change, I had caught up to it finally!
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After that it finally fell apart for good, I then decided to head north into the core then west and see what was up with the north side..... I saw a nasty looking line with a pocket of intense vertical motions; I followed for awhile until it too fell apart.

Here is the view coming out of the core

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getting closer, strongest up motion was the area right above the road

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Last shot I take on the way back as the system weakens
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This little guy was in London and had some rotation! Nice surprise on the way home
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This even smaller one had a small anvil downstream and some rain and an inflow tail!
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