A doomsday super thunderstorm that lasts for hours can trigger a powerful tornado.

Super thunderstorm is a kind of mesocyclone thunderstorm with rising central airflow. Among the four kinds of thunderstorm weather, it is the largest and the most harmful. Most of them are independent Lei Yun. In a few cases, it will split in two, often lasting for several hours, and sometimes even lead to tornadoes and hail. Let's take a look at this website!

What is a super thunderstorm? Thunderstorm, as we all know, is a kind of strong convective weather mixed with rain, lightning and strong wind, and super thunderstorm is the most severe one in thunderstorm weather. The dark shape of the spacecraft always gives people a feeling of the end of the world, just like the fire tornado mentioned in the 20 most peculiar natural phenomena in the world. The harm and scope of super thunderstorms can not be underestimated, appearing in tornado corridors in the United States. It is said that there are at least 65,438+0,000 tornadoes every year.

Usually super thunderstorms last for several hours. This independent Lei Yun will not only bring heavy rain and lightning to the region, but sometimes even hail and tornadoes. It is said that six super thunderstorms can produce 1 large tornadoes, but super thunderstorms are not so easy to form. It may take 1000 thunderstorms to form a super thunderstorm.

How are super thunderstorms formed? In fact, the formation process of super thunderstorm is very different from thunderstorm weather. Ordinary thunderstorm weather is because there are usually ice crystals in the upper part of cumulonimbus clouds, and the breaking of water droplets, condensation and convection of ice crystals will generate charges in the clouds. However, the charge distribution in the upper and lower layers of clouds is complex, and potential difference often occurs. When the potential difference is too large, discharge will occur, and then thunder will occur.

But super thunderstorms are composed of moderate cyclones, and rising cyclones will bring violent storms. The main conditions for its formation are strong wind and huge wind speed difference, sufficient water vapor and strong cooling. Only strong vertical wind shear can make the atmosphere produce vortex tubes to form cyclones, and then the cyclones will rise through strong cooling. Sufficient water vapor will further make it rise more strongly, and then the diverted flow will be divided into rising area and sinking area, and the super thunderstorm will gradually develop.

How powerful is the super thunderstorm? Super thunderstorms often exist independently, but their monomer is usually very large, even occupying dozens of kilometers. In addition, they can exist for several hours, which often brings great harm. They usually appear in the strong convection period in summer, and storm chasers often appear. Many photographers will risk their lives to shoot this spectacle.

There was a super thunderstorm in Australia. 20 17 At 4: 30pm on February 3rd, the storm chaser Jamie photographed this rare spectacle. When the super thunderstorm moves fast, the dust in the farmland is brought up, and the scene is very spectacular. At that time, the wind speed reached 120 km per hour. Wherever a super thunderstorm goes, it is like a nuclear bomb exploding, and many trees and road signs are there. A boy aged 17 was also struck by lightning. This super thunderstorm even caused 35,000 households to lose power.

Although super thunderstorm is powerful and dangerous for people, it is also a beautiful masterpiece of nature. Thunderstorm clouds have also been mentioned as the top ten most beautiful clouds in the world, so there are storm chasers. They shot many spectacular scenes for us, but ordinary people still don't try.