My Storm Chase Log - Friday, May 19, 2023 - If It Could Have Gone Wrong - It Did.
4:24 PM MDT. Friday, May 19, 2023. Low Precipitation Supercell Thunderstorm. Located About 5 Miles Northwest Of Lake Arthur, NM. If It Could Have Gone Wrong - It Did. Chase day, finally. So far it's been rather quiet as far as severe thunderstorms are concerned here in the Pecos Valley of Southeastern New Mexico. Today offered a change and off I went. I left Carlsbad and made a brief stop at Atoka Grocery (my brother and sister-in-law own it) south of Artesia for lunch. Then headed north to the junction of State Hwy 13 and US Hwy 285. I gave Jim Tucker the Chaves County Skywarn Coordinator a call and asked him to chase with me. He wasn't able to tag along with me but did take off on his own later in the afternoon. I ended up driving west on State Hwy 13 to about halfway to the junction of US Hwy 82 west of Hope. A couple of t-storms were pulsing up and down near the Flying H Ranch and were moving to the northeast. They developed and died so I backtracked to the junction of Old ...
