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5/28/08 REPORTS: NM

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Woke up to a ripping SE wind and lots of moisture in the air. After consulting with Bill Mudd and Bob Schaefer, I made my way S on US 285 and stopped just E of Stanley, NM, where the show was going to come to me:

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There were only a few poor E-W road options, and a big cell was stacking up back near my house, so I charged back up 285 through 2-inches of pea-sized hail on the road. Once back N of Santa Fe, I stopped to take a picture off the highway near my home:

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I continued N on 285, stopping just S of Espanola, where I watched this wall cloud with a couple of observant locals:

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Soon afterward this cell crashed into the Sangre de Cristo mountains, ending my last chase as a resident of NM.
 
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Excellent chase in New Mexico this afternoon, poor roading network but the storms gave us a few favours on the runaround so it wasn't so much of a big deal.

Getting to the target area wasn't so hard with a dominant storm becoming tornado warned near Clines Corners and very soon became a right-mover. Truly an HP beast.. showed numerous TVS's and strong shear present with the two cells and saw it a few times with nice wall clouds trying to tornado.

Lots of hail - the cliff faces looked as though they just got a dusting of snow!!
Hit back on the I-40 westwards and had a nice view of the wall cloud and HP structure between Santa Rosa and Tucumcari. Stopped just west of the latter and witnessed a fantastic lightning display which lit up a mesocyclone to the north of Tucumcari and then another small wall cloud behind us due west. Well worth the trek from Childress! - Now to get to Nebraska tomorrow, lol.

First photo shows the structure of the eastern cell when we met it, second getting upclose and personal, hail, more hail insinkerating the landscape, and again more hail with the next incoming meso after the 1st one passed.




Something we noticed that was very strange was that the area gives you an illusion as if the water is running UPhill when you're also driving uphill - looked very buzzy.
 
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