Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
- n. mineralogy A repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells.
Etymologies
- super- + cell (Wiktionary)
Examples
“CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And that can be the big dog and the big dog starts to spin and that's what we call a supercell, and we're worried about those for tomorrow.”
“By definition, a supercell is a thunderstorm with a persistant rotating updraft.”
A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
“Link wow is all i have to say– this is a very impressive photo and it looks to me a like it is a wet microburst i really want to know out of all these comments how many of you are trained spotters or part of skywarn i used to be a skywarn spotter- bye definition alone-The supercell is a highly organized thunderstorm.”
A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
“Meteorologists still can't definitively say there will be a tornado, even when staring down a serious, twister-producing thunderstorm called a "supercell.”
“Near Joplin yesterday, the conditions also included a type of thunderstorm called a supercell, which has a powerful, rotating updraft.”
“The (amazing) YouTube video clip of a close encounter with nature's wildest wind is here to see YouTube footage of the "supercell" T-storm that went on to drop a tornado on the”
“hinting at a "supercell" intense enough to spin up a tornado.”
“It wasn't the classic kind of supercell you get in Tornado Alley," he said, "but I saw a video, and it looked like there was a lot of rain and kind of an outflow gust front.”
“When he saw a "hook echo" a hallmark of tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms cross the Kiowa County line, he instructed the sheriff's department dispatcher to turn on the sirens.”
USA Today: Southern twisters whip up memories for Kansas town
“Erdman says these strong jet-stream disturbances tend to enhance the difference in wind speed and direction at various heights above the surface, which helps sustain the supercell thunderstorms that spawn tornadoes.”
USA Today: After a lull, more severe weather, possibly tornadoes, could hit parts of country
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘supercell’.
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Sounding like a superhero
Words that sound like they could be the name of a superhero. Or supervillain. Or one of their weapons. Or some form of super paraphernalia...
narcissistic supply, nipple discharge, Radium Girls, exotic pollution, superior meatus, toxic megacolon, neuroblast, extinction burst, butterfly eruption, natural killer cell, spongiform pustul..., zonule of Zinn and 155 more...
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in the sky
mackerel sky, crepuscular ray, cirrus, nimbus, bioprecipitation, alpenglow, counterglow, gegenschein, hot tower, supercell, nephelococcygia, cloud cuckoo land and 1 more...
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It's a Twister! It's a Twister!
Tornado terminology.
twister, funnel, eye, eddy, mesocyclone, tornadogenesis, storm cell, supercell, landspout, waterspout, vaporspout, whirlwater and 33 more...
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Poetry in motion
shriek, do run run, grease monkey, victorianna, criminologist, never there, mammoth storm, seemingly, vespasian, spirited away, solicit, let's get serious and 75 more...
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Weather
With so many weather words, there must be some good ones!
lenticular, squall, lake-effect, cirrostratus, monsoon, anticyclone, wind shear, cumulonimbus, anemometer, trough, supercell, cryology and 15 more...
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Natural phenomenon
ghibli, alpenglow, supercell, dewbow, stillicide, confluence, bolide
Tweets
Looking for tweets for supercell.
vanishedone Oddee: 'Supercell is the name given to a continuously rotating updraft deep within a severe thunderstorm (a mesocyclone) and looks downright scary.' Apr 30, 2009