The Texas Panhandle earns a well-deserved reputation for intense weather—not just from tornadoes, blizzards, heat, and hailstorms, but other severe and dangerous conditions as well. Here, a spectacular shelf cloud formed atop a tilted slab of cold, severe thunderstorm wind. A dagger of lightning for emphasis, and the rotating dust cloud of a gustnado as the bonus, completed the wild scene and made an uncommon combination. [A gustnado is a whirlwind in outflow, not directly connected to the updraft of the storm, and as such, not a tornado.]
2 NNW Pringle TX (17 May 23) Looking WSW
35.9824, -101.4625