John Farley
Supporter
Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the winter section, but since this thread is already going, NM is in the thread, and it involves both severe and winter wx, I will go ahead and post it here. In addition to the severe in the TX Panhandle, this storm also produced interesting events in the cold core portion in north-central NM and in Colorado, including a funnel cloud in Cortez, CO where the high temperature was 45. While skiing at Ski Santa Fe, I encountered this moving in a little before 11 a.m.:
When this arrived about 15 minutes later, it produced a heavy burst of graupel/snow pellets that gradually transitioned to ordinary snow. It was moving pretty fast and didn't last long, but still produced up to an inch of graupel and snow at the ski area in about 20 minutes. Then the sun was back out, followed around 1:30 by thundersnow. This time it was almost all ordinary snow, not graupel, with about a half-dozen low, long rumbles of thunder. What I learned later about this was the most interesting part - at the same time the ski area was getting snow, the storm was producing 1-inch hail around Glorieta Pass, to the southeast of the ski area. So thundersnow and severe hail in the same storm! Here is a radar image, annotated to indicate where the hail and snow were occurring:
I wrote up a more detailed report for my web page, which you can access at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/wx32219.htm

When this arrived about 15 minutes later, it produced a heavy burst of graupel/snow pellets that gradually transitioned to ordinary snow. It was moving pretty fast and didn't last long, but still produced up to an inch of graupel and snow at the ski area in about 20 minutes. Then the sun was back out, followed around 1:30 by thundersnow. This time it was almost all ordinary snow, not graupel, with about a half-dozen low, long rumbles of thunder. What I learned later about this was the most interesting part - at the same time the ski area was getting snow, the storm was producing 1-inch hail around Glorieta Pass, to the southeast of the ski area. So thundersnow and severe hail in the same storm! Here is a radar image, annotated to indicate where the hail and snow were occurring:

I wrote up a more detailed report for my web page, which you can access at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/wx32219.htm