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Mezo-Cyclone

Mezo-Cyclone

This is a Mezo-Cyclone rapidly overtaking the city of Wichita in Kansas. A Mezo-Cyclone simply put is a massive rotating Super Cell thunderstorm. Often times i...
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This is a Mezo-Cyclone rapidly overtaking the city of Wichita in Kansas. A Mezo-Cyclone simply put is a massive rotating Super Cell thunderstorm. Often times it is within this rotating thunderstorm that funnel clouds can be formed within and eventually if all the conditions are right a tornado. At the very least there is heavy rain, hail, high winds and frequent and violent lightning.
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Jul, 2014

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Beautiful but very scary!! :)

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Fantastic-What if that landed by your car?

Thanks! Well it never really landed but it did deposit a lot of rain, hail vivid and dangerous lightning along with 75 mile per hour winds!

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