{"id":33187,"date":"2021-05-29T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=33187"},"modified":"2021-11-13T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T19:22:25","slug":"may-29-2021-black-mesa-ok-supercell-or-the-kim-to-kenton-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2021\/05\/29\/may-29-2021-black-mesa-ok-supercell-or-the-kim-to-kenton-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"May 29, 2021 Black Mesa, OK, Supercell (or, the Kim to Kenton storm)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was the last day of Tour 4. \u00a0We had to get up a bit early in Brownfield to make it back to OKC by 1 p.m. \u00a0Soon thereafter, John and Richard and I were doing the 3-vehicle convoy up and over to Denver for Tour 5. \u00a0It was nice to be driving my “little” Xterra and not sitting in the van!<\/p>\n

There was a convenient storm to intercept along the way. \u00a0It was in Baca County, CO, and it had been going for a while as we finally made it into Cimarron County in the western Oklahoma Panhandle. \u00a0The storm produced a decent tornado in the vicinity of Kim before we were close enough. \u00a0It was moving fairly slowly to the southeast, so instead of heading NNW out of Boise City, I continued to the W and NW towards Black Mesa and Kenton. \u00a0We didn’t quite make it to Kenton, stopping perhaps seven miles east of Kenton. \u00a0From here, the structure was quite good!<\/p>\n

A good-size blob of precipitation was associated with the storm base, and off and on a suspicious scuddy wall cloud would seemingly scrape the Black Mesa. \u00a0The storm approached and went just to our north after sunset. \u00a0More scary lowerings ensued, and some chasers might have reported these as tornadoes. \u00a0I didn’t see a tornado. \u00a0Boise City looked to be in trouble for a little bit, but the storm sputtered and spared the town.<\/p>\n

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