Chase-O-Rama Day 7!!
What a pleasant way to count down the final days of chase season 2008...whenever that might be. :-) 7 straight days now of serious stormchasing. That's 7 seasons now! LOL!! (continuing inside joke). I specifically went after some night photography opportunities on a pretty stout storm that moved from Spearman to Pampa. At one point, it had a pretty decent hook on it. It was a nice little surprise for a day that I thought would be a no-chase day.
After I got home late, another pretty strong storm rapidly organized NW of Amarillo and blasted the west side of the city where I live. It was quite a treat to watch it roll in. The lighting was pretty fierce, but most all of it cloud-to-cloud. It did though illuminate the striated storm structure for a cool effect. I didn't even point a lens at it...just sat in a chair outside and watched the show.
For today, it's too early to really get a handle on the critical mesoscale setup to pick a target. Synoptically, that's a challenge too, but looks like western row of counties into E half of New Mexico per the 1300Z SPC outlook. My gut tells me to head to Clovis today as better moisture and vertical wind profiles might be the best from there extending south and southeast. We'll see, but some of the NM storms can exhibit pretty cool structure and even pop some surprises whenever 50Td or greater rolls into the region.
Okay..PICS!!
Approaching a nicely sunlight storm.
The same storm abit later.
The storm engulfs Spearman, TX.
Storm now approaching Pampa.
I liked this shot as the cloud structures were interesting. The lightning illuminated it nicely.
After I got home late, another pretty strong storm rapidly organized NW of Amarillo and blasted the west side of the city where I live. It was quite a treat to watch it roll in. The lighting was pretty fierce, but most all of it cloud-to-cloud. It did though illuminate the striated storm structure for a cool effect. I didn't even point a lens at it...just sat in a chair outside and watched the show.
For today, it's too early to really get a handle on the critical mesoscale setup to pick a target. Synoptically, that's a challenge too, but looks like western row of counties into E half of New Mexico per the 1300Z SPC outlook. My gut tells me to head to Clovis today as better moisture and vertical wind profiles might be the best from there extending south and southeast. We'll see, but some of the NM storms can exhibit pretty cool structure and even pop some surprises whenever 50Td or greater rolls into the region.
Okay..PICS!!
Approaching a nicely sunlight storm.
The same storm abit later.
The storm engulfs Spearman, TX.
Storm now approaching Pampa.
I liked this shot as the cloud structures were interesting. The lightning illuminated it nicely.
posted by Steve Miller TX at 6/21/2008 08:44:00 AM
2 Comments:
Steve,
WOW, what nice structure! What a bunch of great pics! The shelf cloud (or is it a roll cloud?) on that storm is great too. One of these days I will get to go chase rather than just watching it on camera, and posting about it at SS.
Jim C
The shelf/roll would be the lower level clouds near the surface. The nicely layered middle and upper clouds would be the striated/tiered updraft partially augmented by the gust front. It was quite a beauty! :-)
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