Possible Tornado NW Of Clovis Yesterday Evening - Heavy Snows For The Sac's Today Into Tonight.
Possible Tornado Northwest Of Clovis Yesterday Evening. Cannon AFB GR2Analyst Screenshots. What appears on these radar screenshots to be a low topped supercell thunderstorm produced a possible tornado about 13 miles northwest of Clovis, New Mexico at 4:52 PM MST Friday, December 27, 2019. A tornado vortex signature was noted on the radar with a base at around 800' extending up through nearly 5,000' Gate to gate wind shear at this time was 43 knots/ inbound and 72 knots outbound at 800' above the ground (the lowest tilt on the radar). The parent thunderstorm was moving to the northeast at 30 mph. It was a quick spin up and the rotation that promoted the Tornado Warning for East-Central Curry County quickly fell apart. Pea size hail was reported in Portales and near Clovis, while penny size hail was reported 4 miles north of Newkirk, southwest of Tucumcari. Looking at the Cross-Sectional view (second screenshot from the bottom) and the Volumet...
