Thank you, Rose! Stuff I should've reviewed earlier this summer when I was going over the personal safety rules for them. Learned it too many years ago, and it doesn't get used much around here (until this summer.)
By that diagram, the scud ("funnel") we saw was at the gust front. So my initial assessment (no rotation = no funnel) was correct, and my after-the-fact thoughts based on things I've heard from others have been proven incorrect. This diagram also tells me that we may never see a tornado over Meredith neck from the northern side of the lake, because it will be hidden by the rain column.
The question remains for all who said they saw it rotating (and assuming they weren't smoking anything): Is it possible to have any sort of spin in a forward flank downdraft, in such a way that it could mimic a funnel cloud?
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Originally Posted by Rose
Not every tornado develops from a supercell, and not all supercells develop tornadoes, but the majority of information is about supercells.
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Some tornadoes can develop from Duracells, when teenage boys are involved.
