@thebeaver Kind of like freezing drizzle, eh? Thank you again for confirming the existence of such things. That said, the unending narratives from the Weather Channel, AccuWeather and innumerable MSM mouthpieces, make it real hard to discern fact from fiction. The timing of such articles from MSM sources is almost reason alone to treat them with disdain. Normalizing the abnormal… flash drought, atmospheric rivers, blue lightning, bomb cyclones, blah, blah, blah.
I encourage everyone to and paste the following link to watch the last 20-hrs of imagery (NOAA Ch-13). Observe how the previous storm collapsed and the successive storm developed. Training storms may exist, but I contend, quite adamantly, that this was not one of them. At best, this second storm should have been in some stage of vertical development behind the first. Instead, it began away from the edge of the collapsing system, a system which had drenched (as in flooded) the region, thus cooling the region. Without rising heat, how could such powerful cumulonimbus clouds begin forming, at 8:00PM local mind you? In the span of four hours, that second system emerged and grew to the entire size of the state! That was no training storm folks. Energy was added, LOTS of it.
https://www.
star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=13&length=240&dim=1
Note: This NOAA Image Viewer operates as first-in-first-out (FIFO); the aforementioned first and second storms can only be seen for a short time today, August 3rd, 2023.