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| A different view of the Texas supercell than the one in the video below. This photo is from a passing airliner. |
Supercells are pretty much always bad, unleasing large hail, damaging winds, torrential rains and sometimes tornadoes.
This one was no different, containing all of the above, although the tornado appears to have been really just a funnel cloud that never quite touched down.
Luckily, this storm moved over sparsely populated terrain, so there weren't a whole lot of buildings for the supercell to wreck or people to hurt.
The storm was beautiful, as these often deadly storms are.
The National Weather Service in Lubbock captured a time lapse of the storm from their offices.
It looks like two storms formed, merged, and then blossomed over the Texas prairie. It really looks like some massive series of explosions.
You can see in the video, below, the fast erupting clouds, the anvil top of the storm spreading out, and if you look carefully, the whole storm rotating, which is one of the main reasons the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning on the storm.
Watch the vid:
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