[Part 2 of 3] But for the stubbly tan soil, tree rows and grid-straight highway of west-central Kansas as a foreground, the central part of the onrushing St. John/Stafford bow could be confused for a scene from someone’s overly active imagination of the atmosphere on a science-fiction world many light-years away. This storm layered outflow upon outflow, as it impinged on a slightly heated and destabilized air mass left behind from a late-morning/early-afternoon storm complex, by now churning from far eastern Kansas into Missouri. Forced lift of modestly unstable air by decidedly stable, fresh outflow yielded this wondrous stack of cloud decks. Compare this to the middle view of a larger, severe bow echo from 12 years before. [Go to Part 3]
3 WSW Stafford KS (9 May 23) Looking W
37.9555, -98.6598