The greenish core of a menacing HP (heavy-precipitation) supercell looms over the Texas High Plains, behind a ragged arcus cloud fronting the rear-flank core. To the right, a rotating wall cloud wraps up in a front-flank outflow notch. I almost never include people in shots on purpose, but an exception was worthwhile here. To the left, renowned storm observer and atmospheric scientist Dr. Chuck Doswell, firmly in his element, captures the wall cloud with his medium-format camera. The green tint results from extensive refraction of sunlight through tens of thousands of feet of heavy rain and hail aloft. This supercell produced destructive hail larger than baseballs, and is the same spectacular storm featured in these scenes from the Wall Cloud Wall.
4 SSE Barwise TX (25 May 99) Looking NW
33.9398, -101.5157