This beautiful supercell peeled off the southern Sangre de Cristos near Springer, as many do in late spring. The storm spun itself southeastward across northeastern New Mexico for over two hours before I even got on it, since I was occupied with another, messier storm near Clayton. When the first storm died, this one was racked up right behind and to the west, making an easy intercept. Not a bad first impression here, right? The supercell was beginning to interact with and lift a cooled boundary layer from the first storm, but not an air mass stable enough to kill it. Instead the supercell built a tiered, stacked-plate structure (that only kept improving), with a classical forward-flank precip cascade visible to the right and an only modestly convective rear-flank stinger at left. The storm was fast-moving, with enough lightning in front of the updraft to make me leave this position shortly, but it was amazing to behold for even a short time. Little did I know how amazing the storm would get…
1 N Hayden NM (7 Jun 25) Looking WNW
35.99, -103.2673