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In a restaurant one day we were dining with friends and their children on our way home from a camping trip. As the waitress took our orders she asked one of the young boys soupersalad, he answered "yes".  Again she said "supersalad", again he said "yes, I do." We were all laughing, he did not hear "soup or salad", he heard "would you like a super salad." She did bring him a super salad, a classic case of a misunderstanding. This brings us to "Supercell".

This is a "supersalad" for sure.

  1)  Just exactly what are we talking about here, what is a "Supercell"? Simply stated a Supercell is a severe thunderstorm, often hail damage is the signature of a supercell thunderstorm. A thunderstorm that is caught in a tenacious consistent updraft. Supercell thunderstorms are often referred to a

rotating thunderstorms due to the cyclonic action that is created during the current of rising air. The column of air current will continue rising until it reaches a level where the ambient equals or the density matches the warm air that is rising. Conversely a mass of cooler air known as "subsidence", easily said "hot air rises, cooler air sinks", the hot wet air causes large clouds to form, becoming the epicenter of a thunderstorm. Supercells are the least common of all of the classifications, but have the distinction to be the most severe They can be the controlling weather condition with the ability to be the dominating weather condition in a 20 mile radius of the epicenter of the storm. There are four distinct classes of thunderstorms the first in this paragraph "Supercell", then:
  2)  The second class is a "squall line", AkA quasi-linear convective system (QLCS), we have all seen this in the weather forecast maps on the television and in the newspaper, a squall line is the line stretching across the map consisting of thunderstorms forming in front or on the leading edge of a cold front. Causing the usual effects of thunderstorms containing heavy rain, hail storm damage, thunder and lightning. High winds, cooler air, possible tornado's forming, as well as waterspouts. If it sounds a lot like a severe thunderstorm, that's because it is, it is not as severe as a supercell however. After the squall line passes, warm air will flood in, high gusty winds, a rapid temperature increase and a reduction ambient humidity signifying the thunderstorm has decayed having relative calm restored.

Just try to make sense of this, Mark Twain said it and I believe it "Everyone complains about the weather but,
No body does anything about it".

  3)  Multi-cell thunderstorm is the number three class of thunderstorms, a multi-cell storm consist of a storm "cluster", multiple thunderstorms that are at different stages of development. It is called a "couplet", several cells in close proximity to one another acting as an unstable unit. Several "anvils" will cluster together dissipating as new more powerful cells are created and become dominant factors in the cluster. The Multi-cell is able to exist for several hours, but the single cells have a life span of 20 minutes to an hour, it's a tag team existence for these guy's. They are inconsistent, very difficult to predict due to the choreographed paths the cells create by their confusing state of constant flux. Severe hail storms often accompany the multi-cell which last a short period of time but is capable of inflicting severe hail storm damage causing high hail damage repair costs.
  4) Producing severe thunderstorms, albeit for a short duration is the  "Single Cell" thunderstorm, this type of storm alternately weakens and gets stronger, causing it's nickname "Pulse Storm" to enter or vocabulary. Originating in areas that are moderately unstable with absent or low wind shear, causing a short life span. Rarely forming a tornado, it is however accompanied with down burst of hail along with high velocity damaging winds.
  Supercells, of which the four classifications make up have three other classifications dealing with the amount of rain they produce:
  1) Classic
  2) Low precipitation (LP) are found in areas that experience arid landscapes, such as the high plains of the US.
  3) High precipitation (HP) found in high humidity areas, wetter landscapes any where in the world, when the correct weather conditions exist. They are most common in the Great Plains of the US, or as we know it as "tornado alley".
  Supercells are highly unpredictable, moving across the wind direction tracking either to the right or left (of the wind shear) they sometimes divide themselves into two separate storms with opposing rotation, one moving to the left the other moving to the right. They can be huge or very small, but normally creating severe thunderstorms, lightning, thunder, strong winds and extreme down bursts, they are one of the few types of clouds able to produce tornado's, however less than 30% do.
  They will under the correct weather conditions form anywhere under the big blue bowl, except when they form the bowl is full of clouds. The first supercell was identified as the Wokingham storm which occurred in 1962 studied by Keith Browning and Frank Lublam. Supercell occur in many mid latitude regions, which includes East China as well as throughout all of Europe.

Quick look out the front window, Holy Cow!

  Supercells are tornado producers, they are the most dramatic effect of a severe thunderstorm which is caused by the supercell's. Even though tornado's are the most prominent result, the high winds resulting from a supercell storm create severe winds which can exceed 148 km/hr (92 mph), inflicting tornado type heavy wind damage. With all of the dynamics of supercells, the tornado's, the winds and hail the most deaths are caused by flooding.
  This is a very small snippet of a very serious weather situation, the effects of these severe thunderstorms cause millions of dollars in hail damage, high wind damges and flooding caused by these heavy thunderstorms. I thank you for reading, we've all experienced these storms, how many of us have looked the window to see an ominus dark forboding cloud on the horizon turning day into night, my reaction is normally to say out loud "HOLY COW"! Leave a comment or a thunderstorm story, I like to hear them, then share this blog if you please, thank you again for reading.

jacquesandkate  emergencykitsplus.com