{"id":11667,"date":"2014-05-26T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2014-11-15T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T00:14:57","slug":"may-26-2014-west-texas-supercells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/05\/26\/may-26-2014-west-texas-supercells\/","title":{"rendered":"May 26, 2014 West Texas supercells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This chase day began in Hobbs, NM, and the target area appeared fairly obvious — the area along I-10 from about Odessa, TX, to Big Spring.\u00a0 It was Memorial Day, and we had no luck finding a decent place to eat around noon in Hobbs.\u00a0 We settled on a pizza place in Seminole, TX, and upon completion of lunch we already had some developing storm towers to monitor to the west.\u00a0 Usually such early development portends a long and generally junky and messy chase day.\u00a0 Today was long, but not too messy.\u00a0 A couple of good-sized storms got their act together in the Andrews, TX, area, and we got into position on a supercell which trekked eastward through Martin County.<\/p>\n

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This storm maintained a rather persistent wall cloud, but nice and persistent rotation was not evident.\u00a0 As the cell approached the Big Spring area, it became a bit more HP in nature.\u00a0 A new supercell developed to the southwest of ours, and I decided to target it.\u00a0 We dropped south of Stanton to get in front of this storm, and eventually found ourselves north of Garden City with a some impressive low-level structure and wall cloud activity to our northwest.<\/p>\n

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Plenty of dust was kicked up beneath the active lowerings at this time, but the spin-ups seemed a little too weak to be called tornadoes.\u00a0 At Garden City and with the storm heading to the east or ESE, I had to decide whether to go ENE out of town or SSE.\u00a0 I went with the safer move to the SSE, as it looked like the east option would be very vulnerable to large hail.\u00a0 We found a local county road east through the oil fields which allowed a good view of the storm structure.\u00a0 We neared the storm again near Sterling City, and it looked strong still with perhaps a tornado chance, but I think the base was undercut some by cool outflow.\u00a0 We had another updraft or two to observe as we made our way back to Garden City, but things wound down pretty quickly around sunset.\u00a0 We stayed in San Angelo for the night.<\/p>\n

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