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How do you know? Are you going by the high altitude wind sheer that blew the top off of the storm and caused the collapse that produced the outflow? Why do you assume that the wind at sea level is of the same intensity and direction as it is at high altitude?
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Adn the cell near there didn't seem big enough to create it.
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How big does it have to be? That cell would extend more than 3/4 the distance from SC to FL if it were along the coast. I have watched huge storms less than 15 miles away while I stood in sunshine. Later, I was rained on as the outflow boundary passed. Later TV weather radar showed a huge (more than 180 degree) arc of outflow rain. This "rare" occurrence happens several times each summer.
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It's fairly common in the tropics, around the doldrums where there is noting going on to interfere with a collapsing cell.
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It is also fairly common in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and further to the north. Of course, when I lived in the mountains of Montana I never observed anything like this. But on flat land (or flat ocean surface), I don't see how the relatively stable atmosphere behind a storm front or around an isolated storm cell (especially a big one like in your pictures) would be an environment that would interfere with outflow. We see it all the time down here on the Texas coastal plains.
But my question was why you leaped to the conclusion that you saw a meteor impact perfectly centered on a collapsing storm center when you were aware of outflow boundaries? I don't mean to be a prick, but what were you thinking?
In response to 5010: It doesn't matter what angle, there is always a track. And the chances that any meteor would impact at a right angle to all possible tangents to the surface of the earth are infinitesimal small. Even if it were the case, then the track as it punched through the storm center would be quite evident.
So the pictures are indeed, quite beautiful and amazing. However, while the pictures are rare, the event depicted isn't.
At least until I am presented with some evidence to the contrary.