One of the most brilliant and blazing sunsets I had seen, and still have to this day, adorned the northwestern Oklahoma skies this final April of the 1980s. The mammatus-festooned anvil material is actually backsheared (forced back against the prevailing upper level flow) by its parent supercell, unseen to the right. [The same supercell earlier produced a brief funnel and several strongly rotating wall clouds.] Meanwhile, in the southwest, an erupting young convective plume caught more of this wondrous light. Even when the chase ends with no tornado, moments like this compel reverential reflection on the awe of nature, and make all the day’s travel utterly worthwhile.
5 E Roll OK (26 Apr 89) Looking NW
35.783, -99.6236