Wichita Falls, Texas to Lubbock, Texas. (Chased a supercell near House/Melrose/Dora, New Mexico)
What a day! One of my best chase days in a long time...(may still add a few more pics and a video in the next couple of days) If you don't want to read all the text the pics are all below!
We started the day in Wichita Falls, Texas and drove northwestwards through Amarillo and into eastern New Mexico where we began chasing a developing supercell at around 5pm near House, New Mexico. We would stay with this same storm over 7 hours, until around midnight.
Near House, NM we saw the infant stages of the supercell developing over open country and bringing nice inflow winds into the storm.
We then moved to near Melrose, NM where the storm took on a classic
rotating mesocyclone structure. During this stop we observed a couple of
funnel clouds that developed along with amazing storm structure and
plenty of cloud to ground lightning.
We ended the night near Dora, NM where the storm was tornado warned and we could hear the sirens going off in the town. A very eerie noise, especially for those who lived there. After we let the dangerous part of the storm pass in front of us (it was night time)...we then drove in behind it where we saw 2 inch hail stones, bigger than golf-balls, covering the ground. Along with trees that were shredded by hail stones falling.
From there we called it a night and drove back to the east to Lubbock, Texas. This was about a 2.5 drive from just before midnight to 2am where we saw lightning flashing constantly to our north from an MCS that had developed over the Texas Panhandle. Once arriving in Lubbock we were treated to heavy rain as we unloaded our bags and gusts to about 40mph.
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| Developing supercell near House, NM |
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| Inflow dust being sucked into the storm. |
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| Developing supercell near House, NM |
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| Developing supercell near House, NM |
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| Mesocylone developing near Melrose, NM. |
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| Brief funnel cloud development near Melrose, NM. |
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| Lightning near Melrose, NM |
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| Lightning near Melrose, NM |
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| 2 miles W of Dora, NM - During a tornado warning |
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| In Dora, NM, 15 mins after the previous picture |
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| In Dora, NM, 15 mins after the previous picture |
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| Tree shredded by 2" in diameter hail |
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