4/13/10 NOW: NM,TX CO

[Brandon Lawson]

A couple of cells have gone up in northeast New Mexico. The northern storm may have originally been a left-split and is shooting off to the northeast through Union county. The southern storm is currently moving into Harding county. It's definitely surface based and has made a little bit of a right turn, and has a decent velocity couplet. However, it's a good distance from the radar, so it's kind of hard to tell what's happening at the lower levels. Kind of wishing that I had gone out after all now lol. If nothing else, it probably has awesome structure.

 

[Jeff Duda]

Tornado warning issued for Kit Carson County in Colorado. The 0055Z scan from KGLD showed some pretty good inbounds and outbounds from 0.5 up to 3.1 degree tilts. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a brief spin up in there. It was in the midst of a bunch of precipitation associated with that possible supercell, so it probably would've been hard to see, but I see Andy Gabrielson is in pretty close proximity to it now. I wonder if there's anything on his stream.

Despite the linear forcing and nearly unidirectional winds, I'm surprised to see how much shear and helicity is present just ahead of the line. Wouldn't be at all surprised to continue to see spin ups or bonafide mesocyclones associated with discrete storms that go up along the frontal zone.

ADD: Looks like what I saw was producing a tornado.

 

[Brandon Lawson]

Oh noes! It appears that the cap may be affecting the storm in Harding county, NM, that or it's pulsing. Tornado warning now in Colorado, though. It could be an embedded supercell.

EDIT: DOH! Beaten.

 

[Allan Jeffers]

Wowsers, I just looked this up on the radar, thats a decent band of thunderstoms going from colorado into canada

 

[Jeff Duda]

A couple of cells have gone up in northeast New Mexico. The northern storm may have originally been a left-split and is shooting off to the northeast through Union county. The southern storm is currently moving into Harding county. It's definitely surface based and has made a little bit of a right turn, and has a decent velocity couplet. However, it's a good distance from the radar, so it's kind of hard to tell what's happening at the lower levels. Kind of wishing that I had gone out after all now lol. If nothing else, it probably has awesome structure.

After taking a look at that guy, it looked like an impressive supercell. It had a big consistent TBSS on it with > 70 dBZ for a while. Kinda surprised it only produced 1.75" hail (of course out in E NM there may not have been anyone around to report larger hail even if it had fallen).

 

[Matthew Piechota]

That was a nice looking supercell in NM as I have been watching it for awhile. I agree with Jeff on the hail. Would think there was bigger hail in there. had a very nice TBSS on it for awhile and some nice couplets as well. looks like its dying a slow death now as it moves into TX.

 

[Brandon Lawson]

I know there were a couple of people on that storm. I'd be interested in hearing what the actual hail size was, too.