Chase Day 28 Reports and photos

[Tom Lynch]

Our storm for the day was north of Logan , New Mexico. and we stayed south of it filming and taking pictures. At one point we sat on top of a viewpoint waiting for it to arrive. Interesting sitting at 4,995ft with a cell that had a cloud base of 5000ft.

 

We then kept in front of this green dusty monster watching gustnadoes finally taking a risk of getting slammed by it and going east and then north into to get toget into a car wash in Friona before the storm hit. Which it did. Day turned to night, roads to rivers, golf ball size, hurricane strength winds and our car wash turned into a hail shelter. Although Martin still got about 15 hail dents on his car, that was under cover but hail came sideways on at about 100 mph.

 

 

Tom

Edited June 6, 2013 by Tom Lynch

[Tom Lynch]

When I said golf balls I meant golf balls My brother in law Roger will confirm this size. That is Pete Scott in the video, he got told off by the truck driver whilst collecting the hails stones.

 

 

Tom

Edited June 6, 2013 by Tom Lynch

[Tom Lynch]

In Friona with still an hour before sunset  day quickly turned to night

 

 

Tom

[Tom Lynch]

Some of the gustnadoes had a fair old amount of rotation on them Sorry about quality but trying to keep ahead of the storm

 

 

 

 

 

Tom

Edited June 6, 2013 by Tom Lynch

[DubWeatherAddict]

Awesome videos tom!

[IanM]

Nice work Tom, thank you!

[Tom Lynch]

Although storm over us was dark you could see light ahead of the storm in the distance

 

 

 

 

Tom

Edited June 7, 2013 by Tom Lynch

[Tom Lynch]

This is part one of the Friona hailstorm

 

 

 

Tom

Edited June 7, 2013 by Tom Lynch

[Tom Lynch]

Early in the chase we went and sat at the top of Caprock which is about 4950 ft above sea level and the base of the cell was 5000ft so we found ourself in the meso.  We had to make a hasty escape.

[Tom Lynch]

This is part 1 of the Friona Hailstorm without a hitch in it

 

 

Tom

Edited June 8, 2013 by Tom Lynch