[Part 3 of 4] As the Hereford-Happy supercell slid closer, it filled more of the wide frame of view, yet demanded patience in not hurrying to move back ahead too quickly. I’ve seen hundreds of Great Plains supercells, each mostly understood in a physical sense of how it comes to look as it does, yet each uniquely alluring in its ability to fill the sky with flowing forms not experienced outside supercells, only loosely imitated and not truly replicated in other such storms before or since. Every one of these rotating expressions of atmospheric power, beauty and risk has its own shape and character, reminding me anew, “Wow, can the sky really do this? Yes, it can, and is!” Dazzling in form they are, given time to stop and give thankful attention. A final moment of fluidly evolutionary wonderment, captivated in the gratitude-compelling, enrapturing throes of a combination of force and beauty far larger than self…then, and only then, was it time to zigzag southeast to preserve the opportunity to experience this storm in later stages. [Back to Part 1]
6 ESE Hereford TX (11 Jun 23) Looking NNE
34.8067, -102.3094