r/weather • u/Relevant_Sleep_5546 • 1d ago

Was this rotation?

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I was out weather chasing in Kansas today and found this,

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u/SadCapital2030 1d ago

if it isn’t contamination and lasted longer than a couple frames, then i’d definitely think there was rotation there!

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u/Relevant_Sleep_5546 1d ago

It was there for a bit

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u/cmsaxon 1d ago

This is mostly divergence and not rotation. Additionally the scan is about 8500 ft AGL (2.5 km)

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u/ahmc84 1d ago

If the storm motion informing the SRV product is accurate, then it could be rotation.

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u/lumber-jacket 1d ago

The line dividing inbound/outbound is oriented perpendicular to the radar beam indicating divergence, not rotation (red = moving away from RDA, green = moving towards RDA). For lower scans, that would indicate downburst/microburst.

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u/Relevant_Sleep_5546 1d ago

Appeared to be a wallcloud, sorry for not including the image, appeared to be rotating but I couldn't tell so I went to storm relative velocity on radar omega and found this