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Severe Storms in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas - 5/5/08

Submitted by Ben.Holcomb on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 8:03am.

9:58 PM CDT
Tornado Warning expired.

9:31 PM CDT
Tornado Warnings for Oldham and Potter counties in the Texas Panhandle.

8:15 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Roosevelt and Chaves county in New Mexico


3D view of strong storm northwest of Dodge City, KS

7:39 PM CDT
Severe storms are ongoing this evening in New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma. A few extreme hail reports, but no tornadoes yet.

5:31 PM CDT
Other severe storms are going on in Kansas and Oklahoma. Streamers Lou Ruh and Bill Combes are chasing in those states.

5:19 PM CDT
Drummond reports 3-inch hail now with vehicles coming out of the New Mexico storm with smashed windows. WATCH LIVE CAMS NOW

5:05 PM CDT
Reports of 2-inch hail along US 70/380 in eastern Lincoln County, NM. Windows smashed on houses, hail is covering the ground.

This is the severe cell that David Drummond, Roger Hill, and Stuart Robinson are near.

4:40 PM CDT
David Drummond is closing in on a severe storm west of Roswell, NM.

3:40 PM CDT
Here are the Severe Thunderstorm Watches that are in effect:

2:29 PM CDT
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Mesoscale Discussion (MD) for southwest Texas.

2:17 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Lincoln County, New Mexico. Storm Chasers are en route.

2:11 PM CDT
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Mesoscale Discussion (MD) for southwest Kansas, northwest Oklahoma, and panhandles of OK and TX.

1:46 PM CDT
Severe Thunderstorm Watch #261 now in effect for eastern New Mexico, small part of the Oklahoma panhandle, and west Texas until 9:00 PM CDT.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch #260 is in effect for portions of North and South Carolina.

1:10 PM CDT
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Mesoscale Discussion (MD) for the possibility of severe weather and a Watch coming later this afternoon for portions of eastern New Mexico and northwest Texas.

Supercells with large hail and a couple tornadoes possible. Stay Tuned!

12:10 PM CDT
Steve Miller (TX) is planning on streaming today.

10:33 AM CDT
Stuart Robinson is planning on streaming today.

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Severe Weather is possible this afternoon and evening in parts of the TX/OK Panhandles into Western Kansas. The Storm Prediction Center has placed the area under a Slight Risk of Severe Thunderstorms today.

There are already a few Severe Thunderstorm Warnings which have been issued so far.

Meanwhile, the next couple of days beyond today appear to have Severe Weather forecast. The SPC has a Day 2 and Day 3 Slight out. Day 3 could possibly impact the Arkansas/Louisiana/Texas (ARKLATEX) region which was hit hard by severe storms on Friday.

Stay tuned to SevereStudios for all of the latest!

Forecast Models

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 6:51pm.

Thanks for your help, I will check out the web site you provided.

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To be honest, there's a lot

Submitted by Ben.Holcomb on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 11:13am.

To be honest, there's a lot of information out on the internet if you know what to search for. There's a lot I don't know about as well.

There's different model parameters to look for though. http://www.psci.net/~gfritz/index11.html gives a good idea on what you should actually be looking for, and values you should be looking for. Obviously the models are hardly ever right on, so there's a lot of interpretation and guess work involved too. At least that should get you started, and then I guess the only thing after that is experience.

Or taking courses in Meteorology I guess?

Best of luck

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Forecast Models

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 8:11am.

Thank you very much for answering my question concerning radar. I have looked at both of those products. The only other question I have is I would like to learn how to read forecast models better. Is there a book I could buy to help me with this, or is there a place on the web I could look at. Again, thanks. I know you are busy..Happy Chasing !!!

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Weather Software

Submitted by Ben.Holcomb on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 2:03pm.

I use quite a bit of different programs. The main program we use is GRLevel3 from Gibson Ridge software. That provides us with Radar data. I want to get GR2AE (Analyst Edition) which gives the cool 3d images you see on SevereStudios from time to time.

For forecasts, I use a program called F5Data from convective development. And of course, I use a web browser to get all of the weather data available on the internet including the SPC.

Let me know if you are curious about anything more specific.

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Ben, I just found the

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:25am.

Ben, I just found the SevereStudios web site last week and I think it is great. I always wondered what weather software do you use? I have been looking at several. Thanks.

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