My late friend and scientific colleague Al Moller said, “Beware storms with mustaches!”, a storm-spotter caution referring to the early stages of wall-cloud development. This young supercell, with midlevel rotation gradually developing downward, was in the process of growing one from the detached, fractocumulus scud chunk rising atop rain-cooled forward-flank air. The core at right, and lift from the early-stage mesocyclone, were responsible. Alas, this high-based storm endured too much of its own outflow, and that from other convection that had passed to its east (behind us), and never realized a more mature supercellular stage. Instead, it merged with backbuilding convection to its southeast, and turned into a pretty but rainy mess. Just a couple days earlier, and a couple miles from here, I shot a beautiful twilight storm with a nice pyrotechnical show.
6 W Sharon Springs KS (6 Jun 22) Looking W
38.901, -101.8522