After approaching Norman from the OKC area with a stacked-plate form and the oft-fulfilled promise of severe hail, the increasingly wild-looking and more sunset-toned storm drew closer, its slowly rotating wall cloud more a product of strongly hail-cooled air from the nearby core. As it passed just north through east of campus, the main updraft region’s cloud form assumed a “mothership” character, with a show of astonishing storm structure and simultaneous sunset light seldom (if ever) seen before, even in a place that can see multiple supercells a year, and a storm that will be recounted with reverence for a lifetime, by all who bore witness through appreciative eyes.
Norman OK (24 Sep 24) Looking N
35.1818, -97.4398