Frigid in cold outflow, at over 6,000 feet in elevation, one may be excused for distraction from surroundings. In this moment, I hardly noticed the wind and cold. A supercell had formed along the trailing, southwest end of a thunderstorm complex, thrusting its deepest and most purely vertical towers toward the tropopause right at sunset, with a bonus wall cloud beneath the main updraft base. Lighter-colored scud rode storm-scale outflow of the rear-flank downdraft southward in front of the wall cloud, which rotated only weakly and never posed a legitimate tornado danger. That didn’t matter to me. This scene was so large and grand, I had to think deliberately of photographing it. amidst slack-jawed wonderment.
18 NNW Cheyenne WY (6 Jul 19) Looking SE
41.4037, -104.9311