A broken line of storms with embedded supercells marched steadily southeastward across the Texas Panhandle, offering a visual treat. Fascinating layered tiers stacked themselves atop the collective outflow pool. Under a less-dense part of the precipitation shield, the cloud base glowed with a teasing swipe of sunset colors. Above the main arcus, an extension of the lower-midlevel banded-shelf formation curled itself into a breaking-wave appearance, surrounded by that eerie, deeply cloud-filtered, bluish tint often seen in twilight storm scenes. The visuals evolved in captivating ways as the storm’s cloud stack approached, until the surface gust front’s arrival reminded us it was time to move along.
4 NW Skellytown TX (16 May 16) Looking NW
35.6026, -101.2224Layers Looming
A broken line of storms with embedded supercells marched steadily southeastward across the Texas Panhandle, offering a visual treat. Fascinating layered tiers stacked themselves atop the collective outflow pool. Under a less-dense part of the precipitation shield, the cloud base glowed with a teasing swipe of sunset colors. Above the main arcus, an extension of the lower-midlevel banded-shelf formation curled itself into a breaking-wave appearance, surrounded by that eerie, deeply cloud-filtered, bluish tint often seen in twilight storm scenes. The visuals evolved in captivating ways as the storm’s cloud stack approached, until the surface gust front’s arrival reminded us it was time to move along.
4 NW Skellytown TX (16 May 16) Looking NW
35.6026, -101.2224