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Las Cruces Haboob

2021-07-25 By Roger Edwards

Las Cruces Haboob

This is one of the spookiest, most striking sky scenes I’ve witnessed outside menacing supercells.  Dust and sand roared out of the Organ Mountains and Tularosa Valley region into the Las Cruces area, shoved along by severe thunderstorm outflow that readily lofted still more.  Meanwhile, the lift was so intense that dust merged into and surrounded some shelfy cumulus clouds being formed by ascent, forced over both unseen higher terrain and the cold pool.  Light reflecting upward off the dust colored the midlevel cloud base, itself a wild-looking feature related to storm-scale lift.  At about this time, a ridge-top mesonet station 3 miles east-northeast of here, within this frame of view, measured a 92-mph gust in the dust.   [This was the second time in two years I have been storm observing near a mesonet site recording a gust of that value!]  The haboob, which enveloped all of Las Cruces, continued westward for over 100 miles on I-10, contributing to a westbound (with the wind) multi-vehicle wreck between Deming and Lordsburg.  Just the day before, I had photographed a gorgeously colored sunset haboob in the Tucson area.

Dona Ana NM (11 Jul 21) Looking ENE
32.3914, -106.8095

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow Tagged With: arcus, clouds, convection, cumulus, deserts, Dona Ana, dust, haboob, Las Cruces, New Mexico, outflow, storms, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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