On the last day of my “normal” spring chase trip, one final supercell spun up along the intersection of outflow boundaries, over west-central New Mexico’s mesalands. Promising as this scene may be, it represented the storm’s peak; for soon it would ingest too much outflow air and wither slowly, while scooting eastward. Were it not for an unexpectedly active bonus pattern for northern Plains supercells, during the first week of what was intended to be a July monsoonal trip, this would have represented a scenic, season-closing lament—such as I often have posted in these pages for other years. Instead it represented just a temporary, one-month farewell to High Plains chasing.
1 WSW Vaughn NM (2 Jun 19) Looking SW
34.5979, -105.2246Rotating over Mesa Country
On the last day of my “normal” spring chase trip, one final supercell spun up along the intersection of outflow boundaries, over west-central New Mexico’s mesalands. Promising as this scene may be, it represented the storm’s peak; for soon it would ingest too much outflow air and wither slowly, while scooting eastward. Were it not for an unexpectedly active bonus pattern for northern Plains supercells, during the first week of what was intended to be a July monsoonal trip, this would have represented a scenic, season-closing lament—such as I often have posted in these pages for other years. Instead it represented just a temporary, one-month farewell to High Plains chasing.
1 WSW Vaughn NM (2 Jun 19) Looking SW
34.5979, -105.2246