While the southern end of this squall line spat sparks at travelers, the northern part (evolved from a former supercell) graced the skies with an assortment of bands, tiers and rippled edges. Wild outflow formations such as this never disappoint in their uniqueness and creative fluid artistry. They also can herald dangerously severe wind. Conventional and West Texas Mesonet stations sampled three measured gusts of 81 to 87 mph between Paducah and the Childress area, in the segment of storms shown here. Chances are this activity had other hurricane-force winds that missed observation sites in the sparsely settled, scrubby ranchland of northwest Texas, below the Caprock.
4 WNW Crowell TX (15 Jun 19) Looking NW
33.9956, -99.8036