May 6th, 2008 Roswell, New Mexico Supercell
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 18:22 Written by Roger Hill
May 6th had good supercell potential, but the tornado threat was minimal with marginal low level shear. Upslope flow would develop into southeast and east central New Mexico and generate supercell thunderstorms of f the mountains west of Roswell. This beautiful supercell formed and gave us a spectacular show as it tracked eastward across all of east central New Mexico and was eventually tornado warned. It did not produce a tornado, but produced hail nearly softball size. The structure was text book classic, then morphed into a monstrous hp supercell. Click on the photo below for a larger image.
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Beautiful classic supercell with soda can updraft, striations, long inflow band, producing baseball size hail. |
HDR image of the previous one, taken from 3 photos stepped up and down and blended together. |
Structure show continues!! |
An HDR image of the previous shot. Cool effects it produces. |
Shot looking more northerly towards the downdraft and inflow band as baseball sized hail was being produced still. |
And an HDR image of the previous one. |
Storm became interesting here as a wall cloud lowered and was rotating. |
Someone called this in as a tornado, and it was not. Intense hail in the downdraft caused this wall cloud to get very large with lots of motion. |
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