Processing the energy of a high-yield nuclear bomb, capable of protracted destruction in multiple ways (hail, lightning, floods, severe wind, tornadoes), a supercell like this commands attention as much for is deceptively graceful beauty as its manifest danger. Smoothly curving cloud streaks trace air movement as condensed water vapor flows along low streamlines, ice crystals sweeping on high, with even the invisible winds showing themselves in the form of a little outflow dust blowing from the rear-flank downdraft and in front of a wall cloud. The photo is centered on the supercell’s vault region, where both lightning and damaging hail frequently roam.
3 S Hereford TX (1 May 25) Looking NW
34.7808, -102.406