Whoa Whoa Wall Cloud

I captured this rotating wall cloud near Calera, AL on March 26, 2011. This is about 10 min worth of footage lapsed to around 1 minute. I was secretly begging for it to drop!






Attached above is a screen capture from my live stream on ABC 33/40 from a storm later that night around 8:30 central near the community of Cordova, AL. No damage was reported from either storm but both were awfully impressive.

Wall Cloud

Big time THANK YOU to Dewdrop for her excellent radar support this afternoon. I left Decatur and was headed south on I-65. I heard that we had just been placed under a tornado watch and there was a warning in Winston County. I called Dew who told me there was a storm showing strong rotation near Haleyville. I immediately exited West on Hwy 36, passing through Hartselle, heading west to intersect the storm. By the time I was just west of Hartselle, Dew updated me that the storm was dying but that there was another supercell near Hamilton. She suggested I hold tight and not give up. I headed west toward Danville and could see some cumulonimbus to my west southwest. I called Dew and she said there was a real strong cell headed toward Moulton. I turned northwest on Hwy 157 and the storm was moving rapidly northeastward. I saw the above wall cloud between 3:40 and 3:45 near Moulton. The photo just doesn't do it justice. The low cloud base and trees made it very difficult too find a place to pull over and get a good shot. Besides that, the storm was moving so rapidly that it would move out of view quickly. As I was travelling up 157 I saw a very distinct rotating wall cloud, with inflow. A few scud clouds seemed to be rotating into or around the wall cloud. For the most part, I was in a rain free area, southeast of the storm. There was heavy rain to the northeast of the wall cloud and a rain free base to the southwest.

It died as fast as it was born.....