On its 175-mile trail of damage from just southeast of Amarillo to the Haskell-Munday corridor, this fearsome, fast-moving, but beautiful supercell underwent several marvelous metamorphoses. Here, it presents a layered mothership structure with stunning turquoise chambers between, while racing southeastward at 50 mph between Childress and Paducah. This storm wasn’t something to take lightly. It had gotten away from the ICECHIP field project by this time (they took a more zigzaggy western route than I), but had graced them with 4.25-inch (grapefruit) hail back when it was churning down the lower Palo Duro Canyon. At around this time, the supercell blew off a church steeple in Cee Vee, slammed a West Texas Mesonet site with 65-mph measured gusts, and dropped 1.75-inch hail. Soon afterward, it would spawn measured 77-mph gusts and 2.5-inch hail near Paducah. Unlike the storm, I had to conform travel to the road network, which largely was a zigzag too, while avoiding the hail core, after getting off southeast-trending US-287 at Childress. Time to stop for admiration and photography was quite limited indeed!
8 E Cee Vee TX (8 Jun 25) Looking W
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