Home-Brewed Panoramic Photo of a Supercell Thunderstorm

George E. Hrabovsky , President, MAST

Figure 1 is a home-brewed panoramic photo of a supercell thunderstorm in northern Illinois on 16 April 2006. This storm produced several wall clouds, but the rear-flank downdraft was too cold to allow a tornado to spin up.

This panoramic photo was created using Canon's PhotoStitch software. This software allows you to interactively choose where the overlap fields in the photo will occur. Then it crops the entire image to allow it to fit in a rectangular frame.

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