[SavageSkies]

Hey everyone, i had some storms on saturday and as the most intense one of the day went by i think i saw a funnel cloud, but would like your opinions. It didn't last for long but i got a few pictures and have attached the best, the storm was north of me moving ESE and the funnel was on the back edge of it, it was a great looking storm, there was some good lightning, i could see hail falling over town and some wind sheer, i think this happened around 3:40pm.

All the best

Jamie

[Bazmundo]

Hi Jamie, can I ask where you were at the time? (or you could put your location in your profile if it was near home)

[SavageSkies]

Hey Glyn, i live in Sleaford Lincolnshire and was in my back garden just outside of town

This post has been edited by SavageSkies: 23 April 2012 - 23:24

[SavageSkies]

I just checked my clock on my camera to make sure it was accurate and it was 20 minutes fast, so the funnel sighting happened at about 3:20pm

[Bazmundo]

Thanks.

Meteox radar archive image for 1515 CET (BST): http://www.meteox.co...ur=15&minuut=15

Sat image, 1402 UTC: http://saturn.unibe....c-corrected.jpg

[Tony Gilbert]

Hard to be sure but the striations circulating around the protrusion suggest it was spinning!
Jamie, could you actually see rotation?

[ChaserUK]

Looks like there was rotation just by looking at the pic - I think that's a funnel but more of a convection funnel.

[Howard Kirby]

Looks like a funnel of sorts to me. As Tony says you can see the spirally bit just above the tube, definitely some sort of vortex anyway...

[SavageSkies]

I have made a small animation of 2 pictures i took of it and i think it shows there was a bit of rotation, you can see the whiter clouds at the top moving to the right as the darker clouds at the bottom are moving to the left, the small object that appears next to it is a bird.

 Funnel.wmv (200.82K)
Number of downloads: 77

[Tony Gilbert]

SavageSkies, on 24 April 2012 - 16:36, said:

I have made a small animation of 2 pictures i took of it and i think it shows there was a bit of rotation, you can see the whiter clouds at the top moving to the right as the darker clouds at the bottom are moving to the left, the small object that appears next to it is a bird.

Funnel.wmv

OK thanks, Jamie!

Some cyclonic rotation is evident there!

[Dave Hancox]

Nice spot and capture.

[SavageSkies]

Thanks alot for the comments everyone!

[Nigel Bolton]

Funnel tip is more or less pointing at the observer, making the funnel seem unnaturally short, but giving quite a titillating effect. Shame no one else was able to capture this from round the side, as I am sure the funnel would be far more apparent.

N.

[PaulKn]

Yes, a nice funnel cloud here - I think there were several funnel reports from the Lincs area on Saturday, so this might have been either another one, or a different view of the same one.