WRIGHT, Wyoming (WITI) -- As severe weather goes, you could consider the supercell thunderstorm in the video below one of the most dangerous and beautiful.
The storm chasers, who call themselves Basehunters, captured the video of the thunderstorm in northeast Wyoming on Sunday, May 18th.
According to the National Weather Service, “Supercells are highly organized storms characterized updrafts that can attain speeds over 100 miles per hour, able to produce extremely large hail and strong and/or violent tornadoes, downdrafts that can produce damaging outflow winds in excess of 100 mph – all of which pose a high threat to life and property.”
Ideally supercells form when winds are veering clockwise with height. The winds produce storm-scale rotation, meaning the entire cloud rotates.
This can cause the cloud to have a corkscrew appearance.
Weather Adventures also posted a photo of the supercell on their Facebook page.
Here are some more photos of the storm shared on Twitter.