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| SPC Convective Outlook |
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| SPC Tornado Risk |
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| Morning surface analysis |
Another day in New Mexico - starting in Clovis (NM) we nudged southwest to Roswell (NM) to have some lunch. By this stage a thunderstorm had already fired over the mountains to the west, and was moving slowly eastwards. We dropped south then west to park up and watch the storm moving closer to us, with a rapidly rotating wall cloud - it was close to dropping a tornado, but quickly became rain-wrapped and from thereon the storm became a HP (high precipitation) beast. Nonetheless, it became tornado-warned for a time.
Road options were somewhat few and far between, so we jogged southeast to Artesia (NM), then east through 32 miles of roadworks (yet again to widen the road for the oil boom in W Texas / SE New Mexico) to Maljamar (NM). By this stage a couple of new storms had fired, one directly in front of us to the north, and another some 40 miles back to the west. We sat for a while watching the various storms in front of us, neither looking particularly impressive. That said, some stunning iridescence was seen in the anvil as the low-angle sun shone through.
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| Iridescence and deep convection near Maljamar (NM) |
Eventually we decided to have a closer look at the storm to our west, and as we got closer it revealed an amazing shelf cloud, which then chased us southeast - pausing to look a few times - all the way to Hobbs (NM) where we had dinner with
Paul Knightley and
Helen Rossington.
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| Short video of the thunderstorm approaching us |
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| Severe thunderstorm approaching from the west, near Maljamar (NM) |
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| Severe thunderstorm approaching from the west, near Maljamar (NM) |
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| Severe thunderstorm approaching from the west, near Maljamar (NM) |
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| GPS Tracker |
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