Classic Supercell - See supercell.
Clear Slot - A local region of clearing skies or reduced cloud cover, indicating an intrusion of drier air; often seen as a bright area with higher cloud bases on the west or southwest side of a wall cloud.
Classic Supercell See supercell.
Clear Ice It is a glossy, clear or translucent ice formed by the relatively slow freezing of large supercooled droplets.
CLASSIC SUPERCELL - A supercell with "text-book" like features such as a well-defined hook echo on a radar scope and the precipitation core downwind of the wall cloud and rain free storm base.
Unlike most classic supercells, the region of rotation in many HP storms develops in the front-flank region of the storm (i.e., usually in the eastern portion).
Supercell thunderstorms often exhibit inflow notches, usually in the right quadrant of a classic supercell, but sometimes in the eastern part of an HP storm or in the rear part of a storm (rear inflow notch).
Visually similar to a classic supercell, except without the heavy precipitation core. LP storms often exhibit a striking visual appearance; the main tower often is bell-shaped, with a corkscrew appearance suggesting rotation.
A westward view of the classic supercell reveals the wall cloud beneath the intense updraft core and an inflow tail cloud on the rainy downdraft side of the wall cloud.
LP Storm (or LP Supercell) - Low -Precipitation storm (or Low -Precipitation supercell); a supercell thunderstorm characterized by a relative lack of visible precipitation; visually similar to a classic supercell, ...
Severe events associated with a supercell almost always occur in the area of the updraft/downdraft interface. In North America, this is most often the rear flank (southwest side) of the precipitation area in LP and classic supercells, ...
tail cloud, flanking line, overshooting top, and back-sheared anvil, all of which normally are observed in or near the right rear or southwest part of the storm (Fig. 7). Storms exhibiting these characteristics often are called classic supercells; ...
 See also: Precipitation, Storm, Radar, Supercell, Tornado
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