Trentham Stormchasers 2010 USA Roadtrip

Report: Clyve Herbert

Photography: Jane ONeill / Clyve Herbert

 

Day 26: 17th May: Shamrock, TX - Tatum, New Mexico: 

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An overnight MCS (mesoscale convective system) flooded parts of Texas in the area around Tulia with rainfall amounts of 3 - 5"

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The Tulia Historical / Histerical Society doesn't miss a trick!!

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Things aren't so good SW of Clovis..we saw many abandoned buildings...

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A mega freight train approaches Clovis which has a busy rail yard

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Storms that brood over southern New Mexico in the afternoon, leaving behind very large dying anvils and virga

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We take a shortcut connecting Hwy 70 to Hwy 380 - it takes us through a landscape not dissimilar to the Nullabor Plain, South Australia. Cows wander freely along the roadway

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