Windy Point Vista - Near Ski Apache (Ruidoso, NM) Time-Lapse Video. 8-24-2023.

August 24, 2023. Looking East From Windy Point Vista. East Of Ski Apache & Sierra Blanca Peak. Click On the link below to see my Substack post and upload of the video. It has a sharper resolution that the YouTube version. Last Thursday, August 24th I drove up to Ruidoso, New Mexico to shoot some video and photos of thunderstorms. I ended up on the Windy Point Vista (9,951’ above sea level) just east of Ski Apache and Sierra Blanca Peak in the Sacramento mountains of south-central New Mexico. Thunderstorms were developing to my east so I set up my Gopro HERO11 Black camera on the tripod and the rest is history. A scud cloud briefly developed beneath the base of the thunderstorm. This was not a funnel cloud or tropical funnel cloud nor a tornado. The thunderstorm it formed underneath of was not a supercell thunderstorm and a wall cloud never developed. This scud cloud was fragmented when it first formed then gradually elongated and stretched upward towards the base of the thund...