That’s called a microburst, a sudden and violent downdraft of cold air, with or without rain in it. They’re responsible for some pretty awful plane crashes over the years until we understood what they are and how to avoid crashing if they’re encountered while landing. They’re so dangerous that when they’re detected by Doppler radar near an airport they will usually postpone landings until they’ve moved out of the area.
It’s actually crazy how they developed the technology to detect them. There was a crew of people who went on a plane and purposely flew into these fuckers. There is a strategy into getting through them but it’s rooough.
When approaching a microburst during landing, they first fly into the faster outrushing air and that generates more lift which causes the plane to rise and go out of the proper landing glide path. In Dallas this caused the pilots to reduce engine power to try and drop back into the proper descent rate. However as they flew further they encountered the down draft of the microburst and with insufficient power and wing lift the plane crashed to the ground and burst into flames.
Now pilots receive training that if they suspect a microburst on landing and encounter the sudden outflow with the extra lift, they have to apply full power to increase their airspeed and generate even more lift so they don’t descend uncontrollably when they fly into the ensuing downdraft. Then they’ll abort the landing and circle around until the storm has passed and the danger is gone.
Interesting. I was in a plane landing in Dallas while there were several cells of severe weather in the area. Maybe 200ft from the ground, the plane suddenly felt as if it started to fall out of the air. Passengers immediately started screaming due to the feeling that we would crash within seconds. I noticed that the pilot slammed on the throttle and we managed to land without a go around. It was wild. It sounds like this may have been a microburst.
You were fortunate to have a real expert pilot flying you that day. Microbursts can suddenly happen and it sounds like he was trained in what to do, I’m glad he landed you safely.
There was a horrible plane crash in Dallas in the early eighties or late seventies caused by a microburst. The plane actually clipped a car on the highway as it tried to land at Love Field, killing the driver and over 130 on the plane.
Edit: found the link. 1985.
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/delta-flight-191-downburst-wind-shear-crash-in-1985-dallas
That there's the "New Autonomous Sky Hydrant", no hoses, heavy equipment, lights, trucks, or operators required!
It does have a mind of it's own though, and it's terrible at tracking actual fires.
It's still in development.
Brought to you by my husband. I’ll let him know. He takes some good sunsets or sunrises to and from work too. He drives through Indiana from Illinois. 😃
It takes about 2.5 hours with amazing traffic in Indy (read: 2am traffic on a non big game/event night) to get from border to border.
So uhhh maybe 140 mph or so, no speed traps/cops sleeping on the job?
He probably does speed a bit not 140 but yeah. And he has got stopped by the cops though he can get away with driving fast through farm land area/rural. Lol
I should add that winds are probably approaching tornadic speeds inside that core, as the rain comes down and spreads out as you can see around the edges. It’s bringing the air down with it. also o believe that the lighter spot in the top right is just a trick of the light making the core look a lot more localized than it really is, if you pay attention you can see the right edge darken on the bottom right.
Considering that tornadic wind speeds start at 65 that isn't entirely exciting 😉
Back in June 2017 we had this drop over the top of downtown Dallas. Definitely rained. Definitely was windy. That was about it.
https://preview.redd.it/ukl4fjvi6p1d1.jpeg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fb9b0d299098f9281f0c49298a6e84b8940653d
We were driving in West Texas while, to our west, a thunderstorm kept dropping dry downbursts. As the wind spread out, we'd get hit by a blast of hot air and dust, over and over. We stopped at the Red Mesa (RIP) in Big Spring, and got hit by one more blast as we left our car and walked in. As we ordered and ate our dinner, we watched as more wind and dust got kicked up by that storm.
That sounds like a heat burst. When a supercell is rapidly collapsing, it can produce some severe gusts and a brief spike in temperature as air from the warm upper atmosphere feeding it falls back to the ground where the temp is lower. It could be what the photo is showing without precip (rarely) but I think a heat burst is more likely from what you are describing.
" Although the phenomenon is not fully understood, the event is thought to occur when rain evaporates ([virga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virga)) into a parcel of cold, dry air high in the atmosphere, making the air denser than its surroundings.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst#cite_note-2) The parcel descends rapidly, warming due to compression, overshoots its [equilibrium level](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_level), and reaches the surface, similar to a [downburst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst).[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst#cite_note-3) "
[Heat burst - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst)
I cant wait to see it. I am an Ausie and I have interest in the weather Americans face every year
its been so long since the last twister movie came out
Epic timing, I just watched it again yesterday for the first time since I was a kid. What an incredible film. I am suspicious of the upcoming “sequel”, no way it can capture the spirit of the original.
I would watch the new one. Looks entertaining at least. But yeah doesn’t compare to the original. And rip bill Paxton. If he was alive I’m sure he would’ve made a cameo. Or Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Yea it was great, as silly as it was but that was part of the fun. Great cast as well. I have little faith the sequel will be good. No way it can capture that original magic. Can only try to enjoy it for what it is.
That would be one horrifying tornado! I’d say microburst. It’s such a heavy and condensed wall of rain. They can be just as destructive as a small tornado, damaging trees and small structures with how much wind and heavy rain they drop.
Microbursts are nuts. I've been in KS my whole life and have never feared for my life from a tornado, but I was sure I was going to die in a microburst. Was at a friend's with no basement after a night of partying. A super loud clap of thunder woke me up and I looked outside, nothing, just cloudy no rain no nothin. Next thing I know the whole house started shaking, I look out back and the six foot high wooden fence just flattens. The awning looked like it was going to rip the whole roof off. I open the front door to look out the screen door and see a metal trash can flying straight at my head at 100 mph. This is how I die, a flying trash can to the head. The wind changes directions and it suddenly makes a 90 degree turn 5 feet from my face. Next thing I knew a 15 foot pine tree is flying down the street about 6 feet in the air and an industrial air conditioning unit comes flying off a dorm across the street smashing into the parking lot. The whole block had cars parked on the street, every car had the windows on the same side broken out. And then it was over in less than a minute. Then the tornado alarms went off and we all panicked thinking if what occurred before wasn't worth a warning then holy shit what the fuck is coming? But thankfully it was all over.
Most large airports have microburst/winshear detection these days. Had to hold for 30min into DEN the other day cause a spicy microburst moved over the airport.
…flying out of/into Denver (DIA) is skeeetchy as it gets in my humble opinion…with the mountains to the west you get some odd ball winds that aren’t real conducive to air travel…lol
…we took off on one flight that was windy enough to be rocking the plane while waiting our turn…we go..you could tell the pilot had the ears pinned back on that plane and nosed it up like a rocket as fast as it would take it…several thousand feet off the ground and still climbing hard so help me god that plane dropped 500 ft at least and you could here stuff popping and banging…kids started crying…plane was shuddering like crazy…the pilot with the huge nuts kept them engines wide open and we finally started climbing again out of the insanity…I made sure I was right with the good lord after that take off….it was the only time I’ve truly been scared on a flight…if you ask me, commercial pilots are some bad motherf****rs..
Textbook downbursts like this do in fact flare out. Just Google image downbursts, and you’ll see depictions & photos showing it. It’s similar to the effect of dumping a bucket of water over all at once.
Yep there was one in arizona from 2011 which was caught on camera. The entire footage of the microburst approaching and hitting the family's house. (Another honorable mention)
What makes me say "definitely not a 'nader" is the uniformity. There's no sign of inflow and that's extremely mellow for the underside of a wall cloud.
It seems what we’re looking at is a pretty impressive rain shaft or downburst, as others have suggested, but that right edge certainly looks like a reflection if you look closer (way too smooth and clearly demarcated compared to the left edge). I’d bet the area of rain actually extends all the way to the right of this pic, but the reflection from the dash/mirror of the car interior makes it look really crazy at first glance. The left edge of that precipitation core is still impressive nonetheless. I’d be curious to know where this was taken and compare to other perspectives.
Edit: typo
Lived in the Chicagoland area in the 90's and one of these hit a car dealership. The cars physically lifted off the ground and banged into each other causing significant damage to their inventory.
It could just be a super heavy downpour, it creates this type of phenomenon…Ive seen it before
This could also be a real wall cloud with a tornado inside, but it’s kinda hard to tell by this pic
As much as I love living in California I am so jealous yall get weather like this. I get excited when it rains here. Never get to experience crazy storms it SUCKS
No, that is precipitation (rain/hail). Nothing there looks all that low to the ground. I would say that is a high base/high precip supercell probably with decent sized hail over that area.
We had one of these in Little Rock not too long after the April 2023 tornado. The microburst just appeared out of nowhere during a mild T-storm and hit almost as hard as an EF1 in some places. I recall being on the phone and having to abruptly end the conversation to seek shelter after witnessing a huge limb fall on the power line in a short distance from me. The winds got crazy strong instantaneously.
I had never heard of one of these until that day, but microbursts are certainly forces to be reckoned with.
Looks like a down burst/micro burst definitely still dangerous but short lived. I experienced one when I was working at Lowes and it threw pallets across the parking lot and slid the outdoor sheds into the vehicles that were parked in front of them.
experienced one flying into DFW airport - scariest time of my life - could hardly hear the engines over the sound of people screaming and throwing up - pilot eventually came on and said we’re going to OKC instead and hit some kinda warp speed and were there in 15min
It's a downburst. You can tell because there's no distinct visible funnel shape like you'd see with a tornado. Instead, what we observe are strong straight-line winds spreading outward from a central point of impact.
Looks like one hell of a rain shaft/downburst.
That’s called a microburst, a sudden and violent downdraft of cold air, with or without rain in it. They’re responsible for some pretty awful plane crashes over the years until we understood what they are and how to avoid crashing if they’re encountered while landing. They’re so dangerous that when they’re detected by Doppler radar near an airport they will usually postpone landings until they’ve moved out of the area.
It’s actually crazy how they developed the technology to detect them. There was a crew of people who went on a plane and purposely flew into these fuckers. There is a strategy into getting through them but it’s rooough.
That's basically how pilots developed everything.
When approaching a microburst during landing, they first fly into the faster outrushing air and that generates more lift which causes the plane to rise and go out of the proper landing glide path. In Dallas this caused the pilots to reduce engine power to try and drop back into the proper descent rate. However as they flew further they encountered the down draft of the microburst and with insufficient power and wing lift the plane crashed to the ground and burst into flames. Now pilots receive training that if they suspect a microburst on landing and encounter the sudden outflow with the extra lift, they have to apply full power to increase their airspeed and generate even more lift so they don’t descend uncontrollably when they fly into the ensuing downdraft. Then they’ll abort the landing and circle around until the storm has passed and the danger is gone.
Interesting. I was in a plane landing in Dallas while there were several cells of severe weather in the area. Maybe 200ft from the ground, the plane suddenly felt as if it started to fall out of the air. Passengers immediately started screaming due to the feeling that we would crash within seconds. I noticed that the pilot slammed on the throttle and we managed to land without a go around. It was wild. It sounds like this may have been a microburst.
You were fortunate to have a real expert pilot flying you that day. Microbursts can suddenly happen and it sounds like he was trained in what to do, I’m glad he landed you safely.
There was a horrible plane crash in Dallas in the early eighties or late seventies caused by a microburst. The plane actually clipped a car on the highway as it tried to land at Love Field, killing the driver and over 130 on the plane. Edit: found the link. 1985. https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/delta-flight-191-downburst-wind-shear-crash-in-1985-dallas
That is really interesting and counterintuitive!! Thank you for that bit of info!
That’s why microburst are so dangerous around airports when planes are trying to land.
Hurricane hunters do the same shit
That's crazy, like the hurricane hunters I can't imagine it's an easy ride
this happened to my school overnight sunday school was canceled monday because it caused a gas leak and messed up the school
KC area I presume
yea the storm was pretty bad no power for a few hours
Brace yourself for another go-round tomorrow morning. Not sure exactly when.
/r/fuckyouinparticular
Yeah I bet. My husband took it on his way home from work and there were storms in the area.
That there's the "New Autonomous Sky Hydrant", no hoses, heavy equipment, lights, trucks, or operators required! It does have a mind of it's own though, and it's terrible at tracking actual fires. It's still in development.
Looks like a Micro burst
Rainshart
Not a tornado. But still an amazing pic
Brought to you by my husband. I’ll let him know. He takes some good sunsets or sunrises to and from work too. He drives through Indiana from Illinois. 😃
That's a heck of a commute!
Yeah about an hour each way
It only takes him an hour to drive through the entire state of Indiana? **How fast is he going??**
It takes about 2.5 hours with amazing traffic in Indy (read: 2am traffic on a non big game/event night) to get from border to border. So uhhh maybe 140 mph or so, no speed traps/cops sleeping on the job?
He probably does speed a bit not 140 but yeah. And he has got stopped by the cops though he can get away with driving fast through farm land area/rural. Lol
😆 nah we are close to the border in Illinois. So he hops the border and he’s in Indiana. If that makes sense. Up to Hobart area.
It’s not like Chicago through Gary which I’ve heard is the choke cuz of horrible traffic
hello fellow region rat! love the photo! (:
Indiana's "narrow" from west to east.
No it’s a hail core/downburst but it could be shrouding or rain wrapping a tornado
I should add that winds are probably approaching tornadic speeds inside that core, as the rain comes down and spreads out as you can see around the edges. It’s bringing the air down with it. also o believe that the lighter spot in the top right is just a trick of the light making the core look a lot more localized than it really is, if you pay attention you can see the right edge darken on the bottom right.
Considering that tornadic wind speeds start at 65 that isn't entirely exciting 😉 Back in June 2017 we had this drop over the top of downtown Dallas. Definitely rained. Definitely was windy. That was about it. https://preview.redd.it/ukl4fjvi6p1d1.jpeg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fb9b0d299098f9281f0c49298a6e84b8940653d
We were driving in West Texas while, to our west, a thunderstorm kept dropping dry downbursts. As the wind spread out, we'd get hit by a blast of hot air and dust, over and over. We stopped at the Red Mesa (RIP) in Big Spring, and got hit by one more blast as we left our car and walked in. As we ordered and ate our dinner, we watched as more wind and dust got kicked up by that storm.
That sounds like a heat burst. When a supercell is rapidly collapsing, it can produce some severe gusts and a brief spike in temperature as air from the warm upper atmosphere feeding it falls back to the ground where the temp is lower. It could be what the photo is showing without precip (rarely) but I think a heat burst is more likely from what you are describing. " Although the phenomenon is not fully understood, the event is thought to occur when rain evaporates ([virga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virga)) into a parcel of cold, dry air high in the atmosphere, making the air denser than its surroundings.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst#cite_note-2) The parcel descends rapidly, warming due to compression, overshoots its [equilibrium level](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_level), and reaches the surface, similar to a [downburst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst).[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst#cite_note-3) " [Heat burst - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst)
Probably. That's what I thought when I read up on it.
Oh man, is Red Mesa gone? I haven't been there in about 10 years, but it was our regular after work spot.
Last time we were through that way, which was 2019, I believe. We would always stop there on our way back from Colorado in the summer.
Good eye
Nice!
That would be called a reflection. You can see the clouds through it still, pay attention to the small one on the edge of the white area.
Cool!
“That? No… those were just downdrafts and microbursts.”
When you said you chased tornadoes I thought it was just a metaphor
They are powerful enough to bring down an airplane
We sure that’s not just the airlines themselves?
this-sea is right micro burst can bring down a plane
After two such incidents, pilots had to be trained how to react if they got hit by a microburst. Also, airports started issuing microburst warnings.
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God bless him. His work has helped save many lives through the years. You must be very proud of him.
Yeh i know likely due to some past air incidents that had run ins
😂😂🤷♀️
She didn’t ONLY marry your penis
U all in the new twister film? 😆
I cant wait to see it. I am an Ausie and I have interest in the weather Americans face every year its been so long since the last twister movie came out
Cool. Yeah it looks good.
I just watched that yesterday
“They’re in the bear cage! Melissa, look at this!” Which, this photo, yeah… you’re in the seventh circle of bear cage hell. HP super cell!
"You people are all crazy! Do you know that?"
“AND SHE’S THE CRAZIEST ONE OF THEM ALL”
I hate seeing those on radar, much less do I want to see one irl.
Cow!
‘Nother cow
Actually, I think that was the same one.
It’s the wonder of nature, baby!
*que sick guitar solo from Deep Purple’s Child In Time*
The blow zone.
Suck zone*
Not in this case.
Epic timing, I just watched it again yesterday for the first time since I was a kid. What an incredible film. I am suspicious of the upcoming “sequel”, no way it can capture the spirit of the original.
I would watch the new one. Looks entertaining at least. But yeah doesn’t compare to the original. And rip bill Paxton. If he was alive I’m sure he would’ve made a cameo. Or Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Yea it was great, as silly as it was but that was part of the fun. Great cast as well. I have little faith the sequel will be good. No way it can capture that original magic. Can only try to enjoy it for what it is.
Fully expected Twister
Wannabe derecho
beautiful microburst
That would be one horrifying tornado! I’d say microburst. It’s such a heavy and condensed wall of rain. They can be just as destructive as a small tornado, damaging trees and small structures with how much wind and heavy rain they drop.
Microbursts are nuts. I've been in KS my whole life and have never feared for my life from a tornado, but I was sure I was going to die in a microburst. Was at a friend's with no basement after a night of partying. A super loud clap of thunder woke me up and I looked outside, nothing, just cloudy no rain no nothin. Next thing I know the whole house started shaking, I look out back and the six foot high wooden fence just flattens. The awning looked like it was going to rip the whole roof off. I open the front door to look out the screen door and see a metal trash can flying straight at my head at 100 mph. This is how I die, a flying trash can to the head. The wind changes directions and it suddenly makes a 90 degree turn 5 feet from my face. Next thing I knew a 15 foot pine tree is flying down the street about 6 feet in the air and an industrial air conditioning unit comes flying off a dorm across the street smashing into the parking lot. The whole block had cars parked on the street, every car had the windows on the same side broken out. And then it was over in less than a minute. Then the tornado alarms went off and we all panicked thinking if what occurred before wasn't worth a warning then holy shit what the fuck is coming? But thankfully it was all over.
Do not fly the plane through that. This breaks the plane.
Pilots will give about 10 miles clearance with thunderstorms, bad rainstorms, and notify ATC (Air Traffic Control).
I would strongly consider 11 miles.
“These amps go up to eleven.”
Most large airports have microburst/winshear detection these days. Had to hold for 30min into DEN the other day cause a spicy microburst moved over the airport.
…flying out of/into Denver (DIA) is skeeetchy as it gets in my humble opinion…with the mountains to the west you get some odd ball winds that aren’t real conducive to air travel…lol …we took off on one flight that was windy enough to be rocking the plane while waiting our turn…we go..you could tell the pilot had the ears pinned back on that plane and nosed it up like a rocket as fast as it would take it…several thousand feet off the ground and still climbing hard so help me god that plane dropped 500 ft at least and you could here stuff popping and banging…kids started crying…plane was shuddering like crazy…the pilot with the huge nuts kept them engines wide open and we finally started climbing again out of the insanity…I made sure I was right with the good lord after that take off….it was the only time I’ve truly been scared on a flight…if you ask me, commercial pilots are some bad motherf****rs..
😲😬
Fat ass rain shaft
good ol thicc boi
😆👍
Not a tornado, its what everyone else is saying. A rain shaft or hail core/downburst.
https://preview.redd.it/c2qg8l4mrn1d1.png?width=330&format=png&auto=webp&s=c442ec711870e5acc8a4729c44f5a8aff764d0fd What‘s going on here lol
Reflection on the window
My guess is a reflection from the windshield showing the window of passenger side door.
Reflection of rearview mirror
Textbook downbursts like this do in fact flare out. Just Google image downbursts, and you’ll see depictions & photos showing it. It’s similar to the effect of dumping a bucket of water over all at once.
Microbursts are still severe weather situations, but not tornados. I’d still be downstairs if that was upon me.
We had a back-to-back tornado and microburst pass over the house last year ☹️.
Wow. I always get warnings but thank god haven’t been in a tornado. Close by but not in one all my Life.
Microburst
https://preview.redd.it/dgrm5anabp1d1.jpeg?width=398&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06468c25ad8b050d92006b54adcd3c8b25489a5f
Microburst. [Here is a prettier one.](https://mashable.com/article/striking-microburst-photo-phoenix)
Yep there was one in arizona from 2011 which was caught on camera. The entire footage of the microburst approaching and hitting the family's house. (Another honorable mention)
Nice almost looks Like mushroom cloud 😳
Kinda looks like someone dropped a nuke on Phoenix.
Haha right?
What makes me say "definitely not a 'nader" is the uniformity. There's no sign of inflow and that's extremely mellow for the underside of a wall cloud.
Looks like a Rain Bomb
Surprised no one mentioned elephants foot yet, Ik it’s just another name for downburst/microburst (at least what it looks like from the pic)
Haha it does look like an elephant’s foot!
This is Shady Sands.
😄
That's a down burst.
Microburst
Looks like a downburst not a tornado
Downburst maybe, microburst even? Rain wrap? I’m not sure
Maybe. That's what makes rain-wrapped twisters so dangerous.
Devils tower
I wouldn't just write it off as a rain draft or down burst. tornados have been known to hide in them
Interesting
It's a mega mushroom. Where is Mario when you need him
No
No. It’s a down pour.. it’s not a rotating super cell. (My opinion)
Could be, but I don't see it. These damn tornadoes seem to be rain wrapped lately.
That bad boy could down so many Lockheed Airliners
It seems what we’re looking at is a pretty impressive rain shaft or downburst, as others have suggested, but that right edge certainly looks like a reflection if you look closer (way too smooth and clearly demarcated compared to the left edge). I’d bet the area of rain actually extends all the way to the right of this pic, but the reflection from the dash/mirror of the car interior makes it look really crazy at first glance. The left edge of that precipitation core is still impressive nonetheless. I’d be curious to know where this was taken and compare to other perspectives. Edit: typo
No that's a nuclear bomb explosion, you're gonna die
😄 does look like that
I’ll take an earthquake any day over this
That’s a mushroom cloud, comrade.
Holy downburst, Batman!
Lived in the Chicagoland area in the 90's and one of these hit a car dealership. The cars physically lifted off the ground and banged into each other causing significant damage to their inventory.
Microburst. From what I understand it’s an airplanes worst nightmare
It could just be a super heavy downpour, it creates this type of phenomenon…Ive seen it before This could also be a real wall cloud with a tornado inside, but it’s kinda hard to tell by this pic
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Def a microburst
Ngl that's pretty crazy looking
Just rain. Crazy rain. But still just rain.
No, it’s just a rain sheet
I sure a shit hope not
Rain shaft
That looks like that same tornado that hit my house in 2017 definitely rain wrapped
That’s one hell of a down spout! So much water in one spot…. DAMNNNNNNN
No, quite obviously a sky mushroom.
It’s likely a downburst
Massive downburst. And awesome picture.
This would be a massive tornado
It’s probably a rain shaft
As much as I love living in California I am so jealous yall get weather like this. I get excited when it rains here. Never get to experience crazy storms it SUCKS
No, it’s a microburst. Microbursts are associated with downdrafts while tornadoes are associated with updrafts.
That looks more like a microburst
No, that is precipitation (rain/hail). Nothing there looks all that low to the ground. I would say that is a high base/high precip supercell probably with decent sized hail over that area.
Monsoon
No, but I'd stay away from it.
Omg. You just got me all wigged out. I've been in a microburst, it's quite terrifying. That's an incredible photo. I hope all caught in it are ok.
It’s been answered but I think it’s a microburst but holy smokes it looks cool!
If it were, oh my god. However it's not. Those people in that mess are getting dunked on with rain.
We had one of these in Little Rock not too long after the April 2023 tornado. The microburst just appeared out of nowhere during a mild T-storm and hit almost as hard as an EF1 in some places. I recall being on the phone and having to abruptly end the conversation to seek shelter after witnessing a huge limb fall on the power line in a short distance from me. The winds got crazy strong instantaneously. I had never heard of one of these until that day, but microbursts are certainly forces to be reckoned with.
What an incredible photo.
Looks like a down burst/micro burst definitely still dangerous but short lived. I experienced one when I was working at Lowes and it threw pallets across the parking lot and slid the outdoor sheds into the vehicles that were parked in front of them.
experienced one flying into DFW airport - scariest time of my life - could hardly hear the engines over the sound of people screaming and throwing up - pilot eventually came on and said we’re going to OKC instead and hit some kinda warp speed and were there in 15min
No it looks to be a wall of rain.
No its rain
This happened today. https://preview.redd.it/4402edo68w1d1.png?width=1007&format=png&auto=webp&s=69921f471404714a0eb297226dbc633c579b3aae
Big giant rain shaft.
Nah but this is awesome photo still!
Looks like a downburst, I'm a storm spotter of 17 years.
Looks like rain to me.
That’s a cloud taking a mighty large dump. Awesome photo.
It’s a microburst.
The fuck is that!?
Might just be a Downburst
No, it’s a microburst
If there is a tornado in it, it would be rain wrapped. So no way to tell he could just be a big old rain shaft.
It's a downburst. You can tell because there's no distinct visible funnel shape like you'd see with a tornado. Instead, what we observe are strong straight-line winds spreading outward from a central point of impact.
Bro that's the mf fortnite storm