The second supercell of the day, also forming near Trinidad, rolled east-southeastward along the north rim of Raton Mesa, in a sparsely inhabited area of large ranches and High Plains canyons. The storm produced a good deal of lightning and likely severe hail and wind. Though no tornado was confirmed with this supercell, its main wall cloud did roll right over the mesa here, such that an observer on the ground at that elevation would have been in likely very windy “wall-cloud fog”. Instead of the wall cloud’s condensation elevation lowering toward ground level, as in the classic “ground-scraping” formation, the ground rose to meet it, in a storm-relative sense. I also saw this with a “butte-scraping” formation in central Montana seven years before. It also wasn’t the first such “scraping” I’ve seen in this area.
1 NW Branson CO (5 Jul 23) Looking WSW
37.0233, -103.8979