{"id":11695,"date":"2014-05-30T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=11695"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:15:16","slug":"may-29-and-30-2014-storms-on-the-high-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/05\/30\/may-29-and-30-2014-storms-on-the-high-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"May 29 and 30, 2014 Storms on the High Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May 28th was Day 5 out of 7 for Tour 4, and we awoke in Marble Falls, TX (near Austin).\u00a0 The best chance for severe weather on the Plains on the 28th was in Montana, and for the last three days of the tour was on the High Plains, primarily north of Interstate 80.\u00a0 But, the severe weather risk was rather marginal for all these areas for these 3 days, and it did not seem particularly advantageous or logistically reasonable to try to blast from Central TX to the Dakotas or Nebraska for one day only to have to come back south to Oklahoma City at tour’s end. \u00a0 On the 28th we repositioned to the west in order to get set for convection on the High Plains of New Mexico and\/or Colorado on the 29th and 30th.\u00a0 At Pontotoc we took a break to photograph an old structure.<\/p>\n

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On the 29th we started in Lubbock, had lunch at the Big Texan in Amarillo, and “chased” convection up around the Capulin volcano in extreme northeastern New Mexico.\u00a0 The activity had only weak shear to work with, though, so it was difficult for storms to organize and persist.\u00a0 We wound up with rather junky storms in the Gladstone, NM, area on the nice, wide-open and empty prairie.\u00a0 There was some lightning to photograph, thankfully!<\/p>\n

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On the tour’s final chase day, May 30, SPC forecast a better severe risk from Sterling to Pierre, but that was too far away from our home base to consider.\u00a0 We began in Clayton, NM, and targeted the nearby Raton Mesa region along the NM\/CO border.\u00a0 After a nice lunch at the Rabbit Ears Cafe, we watched a cumulus field develop from an abandoned bridge along the Cimarron River, west of Kenton, OK.\u00a0 A couple of strong cells attracted our attention in southern Baca County, CO, and later one near the CO\/OK border just west of U.S. 287.\u00a0 Shear and instability seemed to be a little better than the day prior, but again the storms were not organized and had plenty of cool outflow.\u00a0 However, we DID witness a strong gustnado with the storm NNW of Boise City near the OK\/CO border!<\/p>\n

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