This is a earlier and closer view of the first picture on
the storm structure pictures page of this website. You can
clearly see the inflow/tail cloud on the middle right edge. The
storm's updraft takes up most of the middle center to top of the
picture. In the very center of the picture extending just below
cloud base you can see a small funnel cloud extending down from
the wall cloud. The wall cloud in this picture isnt much more
than a slight lowering below the updraft. The black line marks
the bottom area of where the wall cloud is located. Notice the
slant of the line down to the right. The slant is caused by
slightly drier air from the rear flank downdraft and thus higher
LCL's (cloud base/lifting condensation levels) than on the right
side which is closer to the rain core and is more moist and
therefore the LCL's are lower.
