May 5th Roswell Supercell (Pictures)

[Stu]

May 5th Roswell Supercell

Interesting Day yesterday over in New Mexico. After leaving Amarillo our target was initially the upslope flow into the mountain regions of Eastern New Mexico. As we approached Clovis, NM storms begain to fire SW of Roswell and we dully target it!

Setting up West of Roswell the updraft was a sculptured LP in nature, However reports from the core to our West indicated 3” hail! – the problem that we then faced was the lack of roads in that part of NM – we elected to take the NE road (back to Clovis) but the storm stayed just south of the road – thus blocking our view on the updraft. At this stage a tornado was reported, and while we were close – our view was blocked by the forward flanking line. (perhaps if we had gone East?)

Finally at Eldia we took a East then south option – meanwhile our storm had morphed into a big moose of a HP storm which would now hide (rain wrap) and tornado that formed. Finally managed to intercept another cell East of Roswell that was tornado warned – but nothing happened.

On route to Clovis (our overnight stop) we encountered one on the best Hail swoth [spelling] that I have ever seen lining on the road.

It crossed the road but was only ½ mile wide – but was a good 2 -3” deep in hail – most were 2 pence size but there was the odd golf ball in there – quite incredible to see. A short way up the road there was no hail at all !!

[NL]

Watched this on your streaming cam Stu, good quality and longlivity stream. Shame you missed the only reported touchdown

yesterday, better luck today.

Looking like you wont be travelling to far from your present location today a little bit se and you could be in the the thick of it again..!!

[Paul Sherman]

Hi Stu

Nice Supe, Looking good today as well with better chance of Tubes. Have sent you a Message on your Hotmail account.

Regards

Paul S

[kold weather]

Nice photos with a good looking supercell but the photo that really caught my eye has to be that hail, thats impressive because of how deep the hail was and the temps in the region yet it still managed to settle pretty well from the looks of things!

[Cookie]

I like the hail stones in the last image well done mate

[mushymanrob]

thanks for shareing, its appreciated