On that hot, muggy afternoon, a supercell thunderstorm formed over southeastern Kansas.
在那个炎热闷热的下午，一场超级单体雷暴形成了在堪萨斯州东南部。
Supercell thunderstorm
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In intense thunderstorms like supercell thunderstorms, warm, moist air shoots up into the atmosphere, cooling as it rises.
在像超级单体雷暴这样的强烈雷暴中，温暖潮湿的空气会喷射到大气中， 并在上升时冷却。
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Some of the storms that developed were supercell thunderstorms — the really severe kind that can have super strong winds, cause flash flooding … and sometimes produce tornadoes.
形成的一些风暴是超级单体雷暴——真正严重的那种，可能会产生超强风，导致山洪暴发… … 有时还会产生龙卷风。
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The winds inside a thunderstorm aren't simply up and down; horizontal winds exist from either a rotating updraft, like in supercell thunderstorms, or from the surrounding environment's horizontal winds.
雷暴中的风不只是上下起伏；水平风来自旋转的上升气流， 如超级单体雷暴， 或来自周围环境的水平风。
中文百科
超级单体 Supercell
（重定向自Supercell thunderstorm）
![一个超级单体，与其他种类的雷暴（飑线、单体、多单体）相比，其主要特征为大规模的旋转结构。](/Images/godic/202502/14/Chaparral_Supercell_23227.JPG")
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超级单体（英语：Supercell）是雷暴的一种，拥有深厚、持续旋转上升气流的中气旋。由于这个原因，这些雷暴有时被称为旋转雷暴（rotating thunderstorms）。在雷暴的四种类型（超级单体、飑线、多单体和单体）中，超级单体是最不常见，同时也是破坏力最大的一种。超级单体常常孤立于其他雷暴而存在，可以影响32公里（20英里）高度范围内的气候。
超级单体通常被分为三种类型：经典、低降水（LP）和高降水（HP）。低降水超级单体通常发生在干旱缺水地区，而高降水超级单体常发生在湿润地区，如美国的高原地区。虽然在符合发生条件的天气下，超级单体可能会出现在世界任何地方，但它们多数出现在北美大平原，一个以龙卷风走廊而闻名于世的地区。
英语百科
Supercell 超级单体
（重定向自Supercell thunderstorm）
![Moisture streams in from the side of the precipitation free base and merges into a line of warm uplift region where the tower of the thundercloud is tipped by high altitude shear winds. The high shear causes horizontal vorticity which is tilted within the updraft to become vertical vorticity, and the mass of clouds spins as it gains altitude up to the cap, which can be up to the 55,000 feet (17,000 m)–70,000 feet (21,000 m) above ground for the largest storms, and trailing anvil. The capped, moisture laden air is cooled enough to precipitate as it is rotated toward the cooler region, represented by the turbulent air of the mammatus clouds where the warm air is spilling over top of the cooler, invading air. The cap is formed where shear winds block further uplift for a time, until a relative weakness allows a breakthrough of the cap (an overshooting top); Cooler air to the right in the image may or may not form a shelf cloud, but the precipitation zone will occur where the heat engine of the uplift intermingles with the invading, colder air. As the cooler but drier air circulates into the warm, moisture laden inflow, the cloud base will frequently form a wall, and the cloud base often experiences a lowering, which, in extreme cases, are where tornadoes are formed.](/Images/godic/202502/14/Supercell02.svg3227.png")
![A low precipitation supercell shelf cloud. Shelf cloud forms when a cooler air mass under-flows the warmer moisture laden air.](/Images/godic/202502/14/Shelfcloud3227.jpg")
![Supercells forming near Deshler, Nebraska, United States.](/Images/godic/202502/14/-Tornadoes_Spawn_near_Deshler,_Nebraska.OGG3227.jpg")
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft. For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local weather up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away.