Simon Brewer documented a
tornado outbreak in Southeastern New Mexico between Lovington and Clovis.
Simon: I left Norman, OK
around 7am with the intention driving to some town WSW of Lubbock, TX
near the NM border and getting more data. It looked like supercells
would fire off of upslope along the many mountain ranges in Central
NM and West TX and then propagate NNE-ward into eastern NM.
I stopped in Brownfield,
TX and fine-tuned my forecast; basically I thought some cells firing
near Carlbad, NM would propagate NNE into deeper moisture and better
low-level shear near Lovington, NM, so I drove to Lovington and waited
as one cell approached my position south of town.
South of Lovington, NM I
witnessed a beautiful LP supercell transform into a gorgeous Classic/HP
supercell. I drove very close to one wall cloud as it approached and
crossed SR 82 west of Lovington, which put me in horrible position for
the first two tornadoes produced by this storm.
I quickly regained better
visual position and witnessed two tornadoes later in the day on this
particular storm north of Tatum, NM. I witnessed some incredible wall
cloud rotation and a few more funnels near and after dark with this
storm, but called it quits on SR 235 SE of Portales, NM. Awesome day!
Got some video of the tornadoes, but no pics.
Will try to get some more
pics up this week.
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