6/03/07 REPORTS: NM/TX

[Laura Duchesne]

What a great day on the southwest Texas caprock today!

We left Lubbock shortly after lunch hour and headed southwest towards Lamesa. A supercell had popped up on the NM/TX border and continued towards Odessa around 2 pm. We went through town to get west. We encountered some viewing problems with trees but managed to find a clearing. The supercell became a right mover. We saw a wall cloud, and then all of a sudden we saw it.... a wedge on the ground! It didn't last long, but it was definately there, pretty solid looking. I am not quite sure on the timing but it was close to 5 pm. I managed to get video of it. We then continued east and watched great undercut structure with wicked lightning. We decided to get into a bit of hail as well... the stones were about one and a half inches. It actually covered the ground and it started to look white. Another great day and one more tornado to add to my books.

Below are two video captures I grabbed off my video of the tornado.

 

[edward oneal]

Will add a report here from KS. If that is ok, chased a second day of storms in SW kansas today. Just West of Dodge City winds to 45mph, and very heavy rain. a few pictures here.http://spotted.dodgeglobe.com/pages/gallery.php?gallery=315988

 

[Bob Schafer]

Here is a pic of a lightning bolt that hit very very close to my house in northern NM today. Maybe my back yard.

 

[Stuart Robinson]

Target was Midland. Got on the supercell that tracked north of Odessa after Laura's tornado and saw a big, blocky wall cloud. Great structure. I particularly liked the glacial blue colors above the wall cloud. Sampled another cell that developed south of it. Let that go and chased an isolated supercell that tracked south of Odessa. Storms we saw had difficulty interacting with the old outflow boundary but were great hail producers. TM

 

[Olivier Staiger]

today's images of mine : green colour all over .

impressive storm southeast of Midland.

more pix :

http://klipsi.blog.tdg.ch/general/vertige.html

 

[Mike Umscheid]

I observed and photographed two great looking storms with supercell structure (I wouldn't necessarily call them "supercells" b/c these structures didn't last all that long), but had that structure. The first one was about 15 to 20 miles north of Clayton, NM and the second storm was near Des Moines, NM later in the evening. The storm near Des Moines was just awesome to watch unfold as rapid rotation developed at the forward flank of the storm... a forward flank meso developed with RFD cut and even a nascent funnel cloud. I was fortunate to have a railroad track next to where I stopped for some artsy fartsy shots with the railroad and the storm structure. The railroad lead (with your eyes) directly to the rotation/funnel... pretty lucky if you ask me. This whole thing gusted out fairly quickly though, but it was great while it lasted!

Full account w/ a few more photos: http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=369

~20 north of Clayton, NM:

Just south of Des Moines, NM: