My First Chase Of The Year - Severe T-Storms Saturday?
My First Storm Chase Of The Year. I took off out of Carlsbad yesterday at 12:30 PM MDT and headed east to Eunice, New Mexico, then south to Jal, and Kermit Texas. Then I headed east to 20 miles west of Odessa, Texas when I turned to the north and worked my way towards Andrews. Oilfield traffic was pretty bad in Kermit to the Goldsmith area on Hwy 302. But overall it was an unventful trip at that point. I took FM RD 181 north and darted east and northeast towards Andrews. At 4:42 PM CDT, I stopped and took the photo above of ping pong ball-sized hail on the ground 9 miles southwest of Andrews. I then worked my way north into Andrews on Hwy 385 where 1" diameter hail had just ended 2 miles south-southeast of Andrews at 4:46 PM CDT. I worked my way northeast from Andrews on a number of farm market roads headed generally towards Seminole. A severe thunderstorm north of me kept showing signs of rotation but I was on the south and southeast side of it and all I could see was black a
