My son will only know me as muttering to myself around the house about a faux 35 mile tornado track...
But the real juice was definitely along and south of that modified OFB from earlier. South of the Pike as they say in Tolland (except when it's north of the Pike).
EML FTW!
It makes all the difference when creating robust updrafts. Plus the sky would tend to be more blue, because the dry air has less water vapor (obviously) and particulates that scattered other colors of light to make the sky appear paler.
I can't remember if I said it this morning or not, but all this action is on the OFB from morning convection. That sort of reinforced the already present warm front.
I also love GOES-16. When you loop the meso-sector you can actually see the flanking line rotating. The Cu forms and moves north, then "rolls over" to the east.