John Farley
Supporter
Eventually will get a full report written, but for now will share this one picture from my very enjoyable chase Sunday in NM. This was an LP supercell in southeastern Santa Fe County, about 15 miles NNW of Cline's Corners. Very pretty storm, and I had it pretty much to myself. Managed to cross through the leading edge of the core and get south of it on 285 with only a little small, soft hail, then get a perfect view of it. It dropped quarter-size hail in the Stanley area, which I managed to narrowly avoid. Later, I intercepted another, more HP-ish supercell near Las Vegas, NM, which displayed some decent rotation for a while. That one had quite a few more chasers on it, including 3 or 4 tour groups. These storms occurred in a narrow area of instability around the central mountains of NM, between a dryline just to the west and a cool, stable airmass to the east behind a back-door cold front.
