When beholding an imposing scene such as this, and pondering the relative paucity of meteorological understanding of the era, it’s easy to understand how early Great Plains settlers may have considered the world’s end as a fate not much more alarming than the biggest, loudest, most ominously stygian storms rampaging uncontrollably toward their homesteads. Even then, this churning maelstrom—a result of the merger of two supercells and an outflow boundary at the same time—grew large and certifiably severe, blowing upscale into a prolific producer of hail, severe wind and flooding rains.
16 SSE Channing TX (1 Jun 19) Looking NNW
35.4721, -102.2489