Jun 12, 2021
A weak upper level disturbance moved along the northern side of an upper level ridge centered across the Desert Southwest generating thunderstorms over the mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. These storms slowly moved east into the Panhandles and encountered an environment with weak to moderate wind shear but extreme instability and high moisture which allowed these storms to thrive and increase in severity and organization as they tracked east. The main impact from the storms were from damagi
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 963848). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
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