June 2nd report

Hello. We started the day in Midland, Texas. After a couple of weeks of pretty much non-stop driving/chasing, it was starting to take it's toll a bit - I felt quite tired - I think getting a nice supercell yesterday just eased all the pressure of wanted some very cool shots.

The risk area was broad, and one potential area of interest was around SW Texas into SE New Mexico, where an outflow boundary was - although better flow was a bit further north.

With no overall target in mind we decided to head to Artesia, New Mexico. We got to Hobbs and then decided to continue north to Lovington - a big cell had formed west of Roswell, and so we wanted to keep that in play.

We got lunch in Lovington and then headed west to Maljamar, and then NW to Hagerman. The supercell was west of there and became tornado warned - it had a nice looking wall cloud for a time but the lack of decent mid-level flow meant it was tending to a high-precipitation (HP) storm - dominated by outflow, which undercut and wrapped around the low-level mesocyclone. It did have big hail, and so we didn't run into the core.

We then dropped south to Artesia and then back east to Maljamar, to get back ahead of it. Another cell formed nearby, then then there was an uptick in the number of storms, which another beast back towards Artesia.

We saw some very nice iridescence in the anvil of the cluster of storms, and then decided to head a bit west again to look at the big storm that way. We then ambled east and south-east, pausing now and again to look at the cool shelf cloud, which exhibited some multi-layers at times.

We ended the day in Hobbs, and had dinner at a busy Applebee's with Dan, Steve and Pete.

A cool day's chasing where we let serendipity, to some degree, guide where we chased.