How to anticipate tornado possibilities with regards to cloud base height in supercells

You can tell how likely a storm may be to produce tornadoes by the height of its cloud base.

Generally a storm with lower cloud bases will pose a greater tornado risk than a storm with higher cloud bases.

About the Author: Tornado Titans

Team of storm chasers located across the country intent on capturing incredible weather scenes.

Agui007 August 14, 2020 at 9:28 pmLog in to Reply

Fascinating! It seems very logical. I also believe that storms with a lower cloud base produce better CG and positive CG strikes as opposed to higher based storms. Low based storms seem more volatile.