Imagine standing in a field looking up over 50,000 feet into the vault region of a tornado warned supercell thunderstorm. What are you thinking? What are you feeling? For us, this moment is pressure packed. One wrong move and we will get destroyed by hail or we might miss our chance at a close tornado intercept. In this moment we are thinking about things like our escape options, but also dialing in camera settings, making sure our shots are good and up. We need to make sure the live stream is s

This was one of those June in the Panhandle days where there was a ton of instability and just enough wind shear to get a supercell organized. As this storm ramped up, it began to dive south very, very slowly. At times, this storm was nearly stationary as it moved through Lipscomb County and slowly down towards Canadian, Texas. The sculpted-up structure of this storm was due to the highly deviant motion maximizing the wind shear available to it. And the lightning was almost certainly because the

INSANE supercell... - Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist