{"id":39293,"date":"2023-05-03T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=39293"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:33:39","slug":"may-2-and-3-2023-barely-severe-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2023\/05\/03\/may-2-and-3-2023-barely-severe-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2 and 3, 2023 Barely Severe in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Tour 2 out of OKC started out very slowly as we waited for Gulf moisture to come back north. Here are the day-to-day particulars from April 29 to May 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 29) Start: OKC\/lunch: Meers, OK\/end: Lubbock\/369 miles (down day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 30) Start: LBB\/lunch: On The Border in LBB\/end: Clovis, NM\/175 miles (down day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 1) Start: Clovis\/lunch: 87 Restaurant in Clayton\/End: Clayton\/263 miles <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2) Start: Clayton\/brunch: The Front Porch in Texline\/End: Lubbock\/422 miles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 3) Start: LBB\/lunch: Dickeys BBQ in Levelland\/End: Woodward, OK\/532 miles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first set of images is from April 30<\/strong>, at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (northwest of Lubbock). I discovered…well, I “came across”…a USCRN weather station (Muleshoe 19 S)<\/a>, as well as a cooperative weather station with a MMTS temperature\/radiation shield. I observed an extremely low amount of wildlife, but I was happy to see the weather stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note how dreadfully dry it looks here on the last day of April. Fortunately, the wet switch was turned on towards the last half of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On May 1<\/strong> there was barely enough moisture for some high-based and junky storms in and around the Raton Mesa. We went up there with the idea that it was a landscape\/adventure drive. We wound up with the junky virga-bomb stuff that was expected. The sunset was decent. This was generally from Clayton north to the Cimarron River in New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On May 2<\/strong> we finally had some moisture and a chance for severe weather. But, moisture was much too meager to provide even a small tornado chance. SPC liked the area from Muleshoe to Andrews in the western Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We moseyed south from Texline to the Seminole area, and watched some high-based and weakly-organized cells near the TX\/NM border. There was a spike in intensity and the bases came down some towards sunset. The strongest of the cells was moving north, possibly a left-split supercell, and close to Seminole. We stopped north of the town to photograph the structure and occasional lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPC-Mesoscale-Discussion-668<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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iPhone images and screenshots for May 2 below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For May 3 <\/strong>we headed north out of Lubbock for the severe weather chance. SPC preferred Brownfield to Sanderson at least a little bit. I forget why I favored the north play. Either way, the tornado chances were extremely low as moisture was again just mediocre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chased some rather high-based storms with some okay front-end structure from about Stratford to Morse and Spearman in the northern Texas Panhandle. There was some pretty lightning at sunset to photograph – YAY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPC-Mesoscale-Discussion-672<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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iPhone images and radar screenshots for May 3 below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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