2015-05-29 EVENT: NM, TX

[JamesCaruso]

Does anyone have any information / documentation on the NM tornado report near Milnesand, NM at 7:30 MDT? I was on this storm for a time but did not see this. I will post my report in a Reports thread later. If it was just a brief spin-up I wouldn't care enough to investigate, but this report said it was on the ground for 4 minutes and if that's true I am turning in my chasing badge. The report is hard to believe because the storm was merging into a line at that time. The tornado warning was allowed to expire at 7:30 and was not renewed, which further makes it hard to believe there was enough of a meso to sustain a 4-minute tornado. But again hard to dismiss out of hand a report about being on the ground that long.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Marcus Diaz]

If you didn't know already, it was a very beautiful Campo-like tornado. Lots of people missed it, myself included. I came in from Elida and tried to sneak behind it, then south. But by the time I was on the north side of the storm, it was producing. Son of a...

 

[JamesCaruso]

I am desperately looking for additional information about this event, otherwise it is going to torture me until the end of time. Either we gave up too early, after an occlusion that appeared to be immediately followed by a merging of the storm into a line, but maybe a new meso still managed to quickly re-form and produce??; OR it was a satellite tornado not associated with the main meso that we failed to see because of rain??; OR it was a newer storm/updraft entirely separate from the one we had been following.?? Any additional info on exact times, tornado location, filming location, documentation of observation, structure, etc. would be helpful as I try to reconstruct what happened. Cant find anything except what Marcus posted (thanks Marcus!). I tried to contact the videographer via Twitter but have received no response. Thanks everybody!


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[Warren Faidley]

Jim, your best bet (as you might know by now) is to try to find a radar loop or picture from that cell. We were somewhere near Vega, TX on I-40 when the Dora tornado occurred and we noted the velocity couplet but did not record it.

W.

 

[Marcus Diaz]

I think what happened is that good ol High Plains magic. The storm was almost going due south, so the SRH was probably pretty high in the low levels. Even with high bases, what little there is for an RFD can be enough to snake out long tubes like that. Campo was a great example, but these things happen all the time in the higher elevation. We were lucky to witness such an event on May 15 east of Denver. The funnel was literally all that was left of the updraft, as the RFD surged northward. There wasn't a base or wall cloud left, just the funnel hanging out. I knew that was going to be the storm of the day. All the high res models had a big MCS developing with tail end Charlie looking great and being in a good environment. We just couldn't get there in time due to road options.