When an older supercell, moving hard rightward, merges with a newer supercell forming in its inflow region, all simultaneously meeting an unrelated, large outflow boundary moving westward from an old area of thunderstorms, something interesting shall happen. And so it was, here in the western Texas Panhandle: an evolution of the combined, semi-elevated convective mass into a deep, dark complex with a bow echo. We stayed ahead of the worst of the storm cluster as it churned southeastward, pondering how it might seem to long-ago pioneers, before letting its heavy rain and severe wind roll over us from a sheltered place in Amarillo.
16 SSE Channing TX (1 Jun 19) Looking NNW
35.4721, -102.2489