Monthly Archives: June 2012

high based, outflow dominant…

I chased around the eastern New Mexico and west Texas border yesterday, hoping to catch some decent structure near the intersection of a warm front and surface low. Unfortunately temperature-dewpoint spreads were just too high over my target area, and the meager moisture made for some high-based storms that struggled to keep any decent structure. One cell did briefly exhibit some rotation and supercellular structure, but a competing cell soon robbed it of its moisture/inflow. This new cell transformed into a high precipitation core, sustaining itself for a while, but visually I was not all that impressed. I watched this cell from a distance, and as weaker, disorganized garden variety convection spread over me, I decided to call it a day. Here are a few of the stills I captured.

Blossoming thunderstorm in far west Texas.

Poor updraft structure with a thunderstorm in far west Texas.

Ragged structure with a thunderstorm in far west Texas.

An HDR image of a storm and updraft base over far west Texas. The storm was quickly turning outflow dominant.

A poorly defined shelf cloud struggles to develop as a storm begins to morph into a High Precipitation Supercell.

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