{"id":2451,"date":"2009-05-27T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:59:51","slug":"may-27-2009-rio-grande-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/05\/27\/may-27-2009-rio-grande-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"May 27, 2009 Rio Grande Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"
The target area on May 27<\/strong> was around Fort Stockton, maybe 4-5 hours from\r\nAbilene.  Well, that is if you don't get a flat tire.  Rob's minivan got a flat,\r\nand we were able to roll into Coahoma.  The two tire places there were next door\r\nto each other, but both tire repair guys were out to lunch.  We put the little\r\nspare doughnut tire on the minivan, and then the tire guy arrived.  He checked\r\nthe punctured tire and said that it would not be a good idea to try to drive on\r\nit were he to fix it.  And, he didn't have a similar replacement tire.  So, we\r\ndrove the 15 miles into Big Spring on the spare.  Rob and I dropped the guests\r\noff at the Cajun fish place for lunch, and bought a new tire at Don's Tire\r\nplace.  This cost us about an extra hour, and storms were already going up\r\nsouthwest of Fort Stockton.  I elected to drop south to I-10 from Big Spring,\r\nand from there we dropped southwest to Sanderson.  Along the way, a big storm\r\ndeveloped near Marathon, well south of Fort Stockton.  We tried to get to it,\r\nbut when it started to turn to the south and follow the road south out of\r\nMarathon, we knew we were cooked.  We managed to get a view of the cell from the\r\nnorth side, about 25 miles away, along U.S. 90.  It was about an hour before\r\nsunset, and our only chance to salvage something were new strong towers well to\r\nthe east, northeast of Dryden.  After blasting east for a couple more hours, we\r\nwere near a strong cell with a lot of lightning, just north of Langtry (on the\r\nRio Grande).  There was some low-level structure with the updraft, but the main\r\nattraction was the frequent CG lightning.  We stopped a few times south of the\r\nstorm to photograph the lightning, before being chased farther southeast to Del\r\nRio by additional cells.<\/pre>\n
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