{"id":17547,"date":"2017-07-24T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2017-07-29T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T04:38:12","slug":"july-24-2017-monsoon-storms-near-tonopah-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2017\/07\/24\/july-24-2017-monsoon-storms-near-tonopah-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"July 24, 2017 Monsoon Storms near Tonopah, Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A chase day, in July, in western Nevada, and I am in great position when I awaken in Amargosa Valley! \u00a0This does not happen very often. \u00a0I had made my way from home to Death Valley on the previous day, and had set myself up for desert thunderstorm observation and photography on this Monday. \u00a0I was along the CA\/NV border near Beatty, and SPC had outlined parts of western Nevada, to my north and north-northwest, with a marginal risk of severe storms. \u00a0A little upper trough was along the northern California coast, and this feature was providing some marginal mid-and-upper flow over western Nevada, primarily north of Tonopah and Hawthorne. \u00a0The better moisture, by far, was to my south, towards Las Vegas and Shoshone, and was heading northwestward. \u00a0Moisture and instability were more than adequate north of Highway 6 (Bishop to Tonopah). \u00a0I decided to play the middle ground, at the southern edge of the marginal risk, near Tonopah. \u00a0The convection-allowing models (CAMs) were showing some late-afternoon storm cells near that town, some with a tiny bit of updraft helicity, too.<\/p>\n

Some strong convection was in progress shortly after noon well to the east of Beatty, in the Nevada Test Range. \u00a0It was hardly worthwhile to even LOOK at that stuff. \u00a0There is no access north-south from U.S. 95 and into the Test Range for about 100 miles. \u00a0Also, a flash flood warning was issued for storms near Mount Charleston, towards Las Vegas. \u00a0I was hoping, ideally, for storm development much later in the afternoon closer to Tonopah, where wind shear would be better. \u00a0Skies were nice and sunny up that way, still. \u00a0I drove away from the early-afternoon storms and made my way north through Sarcobatus Flats to Goldfield and Tonopah.<\/p>\n

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