25 Aug 2014
I have put together a video with some Gopro and digital camera footage of a beautiful severe thunderstorm near Malta, Montana. In the first part of the video you will see a small round cloud start to form above the old house, this is a small mesocyclone that had started to form and could see it rotating. A scud cloud also forms at the corner of the house and moves to the left of the screen. This scud cloud looks like it is caught in the outflow as it’s moving away from the storm and these are too often mistaken for tornadoes. You can also clearly see the inflow of moist air move in to the storm, the clouds forming and moving into the storm. These storms can pull air into it from tens of miles or further away. At the end of the video you will see that we are in the town of Malta where we get hellacious outflow from the storm. Bringing with is very intense winds and dirt/dust. This outflow is the cool air coming out of the storm also known as a gust front in some instances. No tornado was produced from the storm.