6/03/09 REPORTS: TX/NM/AR/LA/VA

[Kevin Myatt]

One day back from the Plains, pulse- and multicell-severe weather popped all over Southwest Virginia. A short bowing segment moving over the Roanoke Valley even produced the wall cloud-like structure above ... observed rising cloud tags with it on the south edge of the bow, but it was short lived and showed no obvious rotation. It also produced a nicely stacked shelf cloud pictured below. Nice to see after a sub-par Plains chase trip.

 

[John Farley]

6/03/09 REPORTS: TX/NM/AR/LA

Starting a new thread because this is a different area of the country than the other thread for states farther east - if this is not OK, mods feel free to merge the threads.

I caught another New Mexico hailer today, in the same general area as a week ago, though a bit farther southeast. Storm earned 5 SVR warnings as it moved from Las Vegas to south of Santa Rosa. I intercepted it about in the middle of this path. High-based, but some decent structure and impressive hail shafts and rainfoot.

Full report and more pictures at:

http://www.johnefarley.com/chase60309.htm

 

[Gerrit Gulden]

Mods, can you add Idaho to the Title.

I watched the radar from 12pm till about 4pm and noticed a Cell to my Northeast forming that could possibly do something. Cape to 2000jkg and Lifted indices to around -5 prompted my quick urge to leave the house and see what the storm would do. I got to the storm and watched from underneath. There was pretty heavy rain, maybe even some Pea Sized hail. Special Weather advisories were being announced on this storm from Pocatello NWS.

Here are a few views of that storm.

I Noticed To my Southwest, maybe about 5 miles out another storm popping up. This one was all alone and I knew I might have a chance if I left at that moment to intercept. Again another Special Weather Advisory sounded on the Scanner and I did my best to hurry. Here is a view from where I was.

I managed to get back on the highway within 5 minutes and booked it West on the 20 freeway. I got to the 15 freeway and headed South, at that time the storm was just Southwest of the Interstate 15 freeway. I managed to get right at the edge of the storm but knew I had to get further south. I stayed on the 15 and ended up getting hit from the west by the storm with 1 inch hail, I slowed down and for about 2 minutes was at 15 mph to avoid damage and noticed up to 8 other cars pulled over on the Interstate. I dont know if they had damage. I drove till I got to an Exit and found a spot to park and saw the hail shaft of the storm.

Once I knew the storm would keep heading East I figured I would wait since the Severe Thunderstorm mentioned slight rotation to the Cell just south of me. Keep in mind I did not have radar on me and just went by Visuals and what the scanner said. Here is the storm to my south.

It kept that same appearance for quite some time till it appeared to have weakened.

As for reports, there was 1/2 inch to 1 inch reports of hail and one report mentioned a broken windshield. I got very lucky to have avoided any damage. It was a great and pretty local chase. Storms dont pop like this too often but when they do they bring some pretty structure and decent sized hail.

There are a ton more photos at this link
http://www.severeidaho.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=50

I will be editing my video over the next week and will have that uploaded at my youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SevereIDAHO

-gerrit

 

[Leah Robertson]

I was on the same storm as John in New Mexico but maybe just a hair further southeast of his location. I intercepted the storm near Puerto de Luna southeast of Santa Rosa on Highway 84 around 4:30 in the afternoon. It clearly had a decent hail core and was fairly organized for being such a high based storm. I witnessed the evoluation of two rain foots forming on each side of the main downdraft just minutes apart from each other. As the storm moved southeast, the core began to intensify even further and there was even a little hint of inflow with the backing of the winds near the storm. It was a beautiful storm to watch evolve, actually.