A storm cell is an air mass that contains up and down drafts in convective loops and that moves and reacts as a single entity, functioning as the smallest unit of a storm-producing system. An organized grouping of thunder clouds will thus be considered as a series of storm cells with their up/downdrafts being independent or interfering one with the other.[1]
A storm cell extend over an area the size of a few tens of square miles/kilometers and last 30 minutes or so.[2] When the updraft and the environmental wind shear is well coordinated, the size and the duration of the cell can be much greater leading to a supercell.[2] Finally, storm cells can form on the outflow of previous cells leading to multicellular thunderstorms or mesoscale convective systems. Slow motion of these more intense storm cells or groups of cells can produce large precipitation accumulations and flash flood, or other dangerous phenomena like hail and tornadoes.[3]
Storm Cell 2008
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A brother and sister are torn apart when their parents die tragically in a tornado. While he moves to Seattle to be away from the memory, she devotes her life to studying storms and weather patterns. When she discovers the threat of a powerful series of tornadoes are heading for Seattle, she must convince her brother and the entire city that she is not crazy; and they are in grave danger
I don't know what I hated the most, the looping monster roar that's supposed to be the tornado's sound (which thanks to a storm chaser or two, I know EXACTLY how it sounds), the dense and spiteful daughter, or the terrible visual effects. Screw it, I hate it all.
Ever since she was a teenager April (Mimi Rogers - Big Nothing)and her younger brother Sean (Robert Moloney - Secrets of an Undercover Wife) witnessed their parents killed during a tornado she has devoted her life to studying storms. But her devotion has not come without its problems from the media making her out to be a fanatic to a strained relationship with her daughter Dana (Elyse Levesque) who is sick and tired of her mum's storm chasing and constant monitoring of the weather charts. Whilst trying to make it up to Dana with a visit to see her brother Sean and his wife in Seattle they come under threat from a sudden formation of storms in the area.
If you've seen one bad weather movie you've seen them all or at least that is how it often feels especially when it comes to disaster movies about storms and tornadoes. And that is part of the problem with "Storm Cell" as the storyline is mostly predictable from are storm chaser devoted to her career ever since a childhood disaster to the strained relationship with a child because of that devotion. In between all this familiarity we do have some extra bits such as when April visits her brother she bumps into local weather man Travis who many years earlier she knew whilst in college but it just adds a minor distraction; a slight air of romance, an obvious twist and an opportunity for Andrew Airlie to show up in a nice guy role.
But over familiarity is not the only problem to affect "Storm Cell" as it also suffers from numerous TV movie flaws; under developed characters, basic dialogue, no depth or realism. I could go on but it is again a case that "Storm Cell" feels like any other bad weather disaster movie made for TV and it shares the same style of special effects when it comes to the various storms which to be honest are not terrible but look like the same ones used in other TV movies.
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I was given the chance to sit down to watch the 2008 movie "Storm Cell" here in 2021. And since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen before, of course I took the time to sit down to watch it.Now, with this being a natural disaster movie, I must admit that the movie could go either way; either be just another one of those lousy special effect disaster movies that is a disaster in itself, or it could actually prove to be an entertaining movie with proper special effects. And with the likes of Mimi Rogers and Michael Ironside on the cast list, I must admit that I had hopes for "Storm Cell".Turns out that "Storm Cell", as written by writers Michael Konyves and Graham Ludlow just didn't have what it took to be a proper disaster movie. It wasn't a terrible movie, so I wouldn't categorize it in that particular genre of disaster movies that are so bad that they become terrible. However, the storyline told in "Storm Cell" was just horribly bland, and I never really got fully submerged and drawn into that particular storyline.The movie was less than mediocre in terms of being entertaining, but at least it had heart and spirit, and that counted for something. Ultimately, though, then the lack of an interesting storyline just killed the movie off for me.Visually then "Storm Cell" didn't really impress. The special effects were good enough, I suppose, albeit bordering on being inadequate at times, though. If you sit down to watch the 2008 movie "Storm Cell" and expect to be blown away - pardon the pun - by a display of amazing CGI and special effects, then you will find yourself sorely disappointed.The acting in "Storm Cell" was adequate, although the character gallery was about as interesting as a field overgrown by weeds. The characters in the movie were rather bland and pointless, actually. Most of them didn't even display proper motivation, and the dialogue wasn't really all that impressive either, so that didn't help much.Director Steven R. Monroe didn't manage to huff and puff enough to make a lasting impression with "Storm Cell", and it was a movie that had managed to elude my radar, and it is a movie that will just as quietly fade into oblivion.My rating of "Storm Cell" lands on a mere three out of ten stars. There are far better disaster movies out there.
STORM CELL is a bad disaster movie even by TV movie standards. It stars Mimi Rogers (THE X-FILES) as a dedicated storm chaser who must fight against time to save her family from a series of super-powerful twisters that threaten to wreck much of middle America, yet the film fails to build on that premise at any point.Due to budgetary constraints, no doubt, this film ends up more as a family drama than a disaster flick. Much is made of Rogers' obnoxious and stuck-up teenage daughter who keeps getting herself into peril, to the degree that I was hoping Rogers would simply cut her losses and forget about the dumb kid; no such luck.Meanwhile, a few scenes show a twister wreaking havoc on some homesteads with the aid of some dodgy CGI. The two plots never gel, there's no plan on the part of the heroes, they just sort of amble from place to place and survive mainly through luck. It's all very boring and uninteresting; I expected something cheesier, and more entertaining, from this genre, but it's almost laid back in it's approach. Watch out for the great Michael Ironside in a cameo role.
A 3D presentation of the mitochondria shown in Figure 2a. Different viewing perspectives of the 3D image are presented by rotating the image. In both x-y and x-z viewing perspectives, consecutive 100 nm thick sections are also shown. The x-y sections start from the bottom of the cells toward top and the x-z sections start from the upper part of the image. Scale bar: 3 μm. (MOV 2526 kb)
Lightning storms in Saturn's atmosphere can last for a few days up to several months. In this paper we analyze a lightning storm that raged for seven and a half months at a planetocentric latitude of 35 south from the end of November 2007 until mid-July 2008. Thunderstorms observed by the Cassini spacecraft before this time were characterized by a single convective storm region of 2000 km in size, but this storm developed two distinct convective storm cells at the same latitude separated by 25 in longitude. The second storm cell developed in March 2008, and the entire two-cell convective system was moving with a westward drift velocity of about 0.35 deg per day, which differs from the zonal wind speed. An exhaustive data analysis shows that the storm system produced 277000 lightning events termed Saturn electrostatic discharges (SEDs) that were detected by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument, and they occurred in 439 storm episodes. We analyzed the SED intensity distributions, the SED polarization, the burst rates, and the burst and episode durations. During this storm Cassini made several orbits around Saturn and observed the SEDs from all local times. A comparison with optical observations shows that SEDs can be detected when the storm is still beyond the visible horizon. We qualitatively describe this so-called over-the-horizon effect which is thought to be due to a temporary trapping of SED radio waves below Saturn's ionosphere. We also describe the first occurrence of so-called SED pre- and post-episodes, which occur in a limited frequency range around 4 MHz separated from the main episode. Pre- and post-episodes were mostly observed by Cassini located at local noon, and should be a manifestation of an extreme over-the-horizon effect. Combined radio and imaging observations suggest that some decreases in SED activity are caused by splitting of the thunderstorm into a bright cloud and a dark oval. Table C.1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to -strasbg.fr ( ) or via -strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/621/A113 2ff7e9595c
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