While heading west towards a distant supercell we encountered a newly developing storm near Lamesa that we followed for just over an hour.
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The storm had several updraft bases that merged into one strong updraft
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As we followed the storm, it produced a microburst
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As the storm transformed it developed a striated base with a large inflow tail

as the inflow tail dissipated the storm began to look like a flying saucer and began to take on high precipitation characteristics.
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