{"id":23876,"date":"2019-06-16T00:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T08:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2019-10-10T22:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T06:13:53","slug":"june-16-2019-newkirk-nm-rainbow-jackpot-or-junky-chase-with-token-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2019\/06\/16\/june-16-2019-newkirk-nm-rainbow-jackpot-or-junky-chase-with-token-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"June 16, 2019 Newkirk, NM Rainbow Jackpot (or, junky chase with token rainbow)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Start: \u00a0Clinton, OK<\/p>\n

Lunch: \u00a0Canadian Restaurant<\/p>\n

End: \u00a0Tucumcari<\/p>\n

492 miles<\/p>\n

Chase account<\/a> by TT guest L. Ryan<\/p>\n

The best place for severe storms and tornados today looked to be around central Texas, along the southward-moving outflow boundary. \u00a0Shear was modest, but instability was excellent. \u00a0Our Tour 6 group was to meet up with the mini B group (coming from Denver). \u00a0Since the next two days looked active back up here, north of I-40, I decided to forego the long drive south and then back north again and to play the forecast high-based storms in northeastern New Mexico. \u00a0Bill S. and the mini B folks could easily catch up with us there. \u00a0(As it turned out, the central Texas play was a dud \u00a0tornado-wise. \u00a0We likely would have wound up on a supercell near Mertzon, a bit southwest of San Angelo.)<\/p>\n

From Clinton, we headed north to look at some tornado damage from the prior evening near Putnam. \u00a0The damage looked like EF-1 to EF-2 or so to a couple of homes.<\/p>\n

We made our way into the emptiness of northeastern New Mexico, from Mosquero to Trementina. \u00a0There were a few ho-hum cells, including one that was severe-warned. \u00a0It never looked very interesting, and I was disinclined to photograph it. \u00a0Towards the end of the chase day, a strong storm or two developed just south of I-40, east of Santa Rosa. \u00a0The road network did not offer direct access to the storm that might have been worth chasing (it was drifting to the SE), so we settled for the rainbow show near Newkirk (west of Tucumcari).<\/p>\n

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