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Sincerely, Jeff D.
5/5/08 REPORTS: KS / OK / TX / NM
- Thread starter Paul Sherman
- Start date
Jason Boggs
Going to make this fairly short.
Left Amarillo around 1pm or so and targeted an area east of Clovis, NM around Melrose. Sat for an hour or so and noticed the storm intensifying near Roswell. I didn't want to commit to that storm just yet because I thought something might form near my area. Well, it didn't so I headed to the storm near Roswell. When I was a few miles east of Elkins, I started seeing the wall cloud. It was ragged and not real well defined. I eased my way up Hwy 70 and ran into David Drummond and eventually Steve Miller (TX) and Jay McCoy. After a while, we went our separate ways and I headed south out of Elida. I started seeing a very low and well defined wall cloud in the distance. I kept traveling south and at times thought I saw a funnel or two. Not real sure, but it sure appeared like a funnel. As I kept traveling south the road turned into dirt and I stopped. With the rain core just to my west, I didn't want to chance it. At this time, the inflow to the storm was at least 40mph or higher. I hung around a while and made my way back home to get ready for Tuesday.
Left Amarillo around 1pm or so and targeted an area east of Clovis, NM around Melrose. Sat for an hour or so and noticed the storm intensifying near Roswell. I didn't want to commit to that storm just yet because I thought something might form near my area. Well, it didn't so I headed to the storm near Roswell. When I was a few miles east of Elkins, I started seeing the wall cloud. It was ragged and not real well defined. I eased my way up Hwy 70 and ran into David Drummond and eventually Steve Miller (TX) and Jay McCoy. After a while, we went our separate ways and I headed south out of Elida. I started seeing a very low and well defined wall cloud in the distance. I kept traveling south and at times thought I saw a funnel or two. Not real sure, but it sure appeared like a funnel. As I kept traveling south the road turned into dirt and I stopped. With the rain core just to my west, I didn't want to chance it. At this time, the inflow to the storm was at least 40mph or higher. I hung around a while and made my way back home to get ready for Tuesday.
Nathan Edwards
EF2
I too chased the Roswell storm from fairly early in it's life. I'm really struggling to upload anything on my internet connection, but I did put my pictures into a low quality slideshow/ timelapse onto youtube earlier, which shows the evolution of the storm nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gadtt5fYgh4
I also did a similar thing with my lightning photos from this evening. I hope to get much more up once I get to a motel with working wi-fi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iS2zVZwyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gadtt5fYgh4
I also did a similar thing with my lightning photos from this evening. I hope to get much more up once I get to a motel with working wi-fi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iS2zVZwyc
Bob Schafer
EF5
I targeted NE NM today, but started to head down towards Roswell once I got to Tucumcari. Then I checked my voicemail. Jody Radzik had called and pointed out that some convection right there had a chance of developing. It wasn't too easy to recognize with all the cloud layers at different levels, but it seemed he may be right, so I got him on the phone, and we met back in TCC.
We found some developing convection to the N, so we drove up 54 to Nara Visa, then W about 10 miles on a dirt road. Then we waited for about 45 minutes for the moisture to arrive. Soon after it did, the cloud bases lowered, and we damn near got a tube from a nicely rotating w/c, but this pic represents the best it ever looked before occluding from precip from the S.
<edit> I received a request from Bernd Maerz to post this link regarding the same storm and feature. I guess he is personally unable to post. I think it's appropriate:
http://www.wetteronline.de/feature/spezial/tornadojagd2008/2008/05/06_to.htm
We found some developing convection to the N, so we drove up 54 to Nara Visa, then W about 10 miles on a dirt road. Then we waited for about 45 minutes for the moisture to arrive. Soon after it did, the cloud bases lowered, and we damn near got a tube from a nicely rotating w/c, but this pic represents the best it ever looked before occluding from precip from the S.
<edit> I received a request from Bernd Maerz to post this link regarding the same storm and feature. I guess he is personally unable to post. I think it's appropriate:
http://www.wetteronline.de/feature/spezial/tornadojagd2008/2008/05/06_to.htm
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David Wolfson
EF5
Departing Amarillo, was torn between my favored southern target a/o the previous evening -- Clovis, NM, and north toward sw KS. The previous evening's promised helicity and moisture upslope east of Carlsbad wasn't meeting expectations by late morning. So the plan was to head north to Dalhart and re-assess after noon, slipping south and west down west NM if the north options didn't impress.
By Dalhart, the situation had deteriorated toward a less impressive and late show, if any, and some convection began to appear off the mountains west of Roswell. This continued to be about the only game and I went south with all dispatch to join the accumulating gaggle of chasers in Roswell.
By 22Z entering Roswell, the now-severe cells were still dawdling west of town over and north of US380. They weren't that impressive but if an organization cycle and speed-up started, they would take a more eastward track, so US70 northeast toward Elkins might be trouble leaving only options east and south of town and I continued south.
By 22:30 the southwest flank was showing organization definite features, and mid-level inflow appeared to be increasing overhead and to the east I took NM409 north and east (highly-recommended route BTW which takes a high-line with many scenic vistas to the west) to intercept. The rain-free base to my wnw was showing scunnels and some lowering. I set up just north of US380 at 23:15 to 23:45 and observed a weakly rotating whale-mouthed meso behind a hail-core as it traversed north of my location. I went a few miles north on dirt as it continued to back-build during the period to 00:30Z.
As the complex began to move I followed east to Caprock and north on county roads to near dark around 1:45Z. Stout inflow and doppler TW at this time, but no visible rotation focus. Inflow just after dark south of Crossroads was strong enough to kick up a dust storm.
By Dalhart, the situation had deteriorated toward a less impressive and late show, if any, and some convection began to appear off the mountains west of Roswell. This continued to be about the only game and I went south with all dispatch to join the accumulating gaggle of chasers in Roswell.
By 22Z entering Roswell, the now-severe cells were still dawdling west of town over and north of US380. They weren't that impressive but if an organization cycle and speed-up started, they would take a more eastward track, so US70 northeast toward Elkins might be trouble leaving only options east and south of town and I continued south.
By 22:30 the southwest flank was showing organization definite features, and mid-level inflow appeared to be increasing overhead and to the east I took NM409 north and east (highly-recommended route BTW which takes a high-line with many scenic vistas to the west) to intercept. The rain-free base to my wnw was showing scunnels and some lowering. I set up just north of US380 at 23:15 to 23:45 and observed a weakly rotating whale-mouthed meso behind a hail-core as it traversed north of my location. I went a few miles north on dirt as it continued to back-build during the period to 00:30Z.
As the complex began to move I followed east to Caprock and north on county roads to near dark around 1:45Z. Stout inflow and doppler TW at this time, but no visible rotation focus. Inflow just after dark south of Crossroads was strong enough to kick up a dust storm.
