{"id":1650,"date":"2021-05-30T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:44:05","slug":"30-may-2021-house-new-mexico-to-morse-texas-casual-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2021\/05\/30\/30-may-2021-house-new-mexico-to-morse-texas-casual-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"30 May 2021 | House, New Mexico to Morse, Texas | Casual Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was a rough chase day. After being on the road for ten days, I was pretty tired and not especially focused or confident in my forecasting. After waking up near Boise City, Oklahoma, I decided I’d treat it like a pop-up storm day and try for storms firing off terrain in New Mexico and catching them as they strengthened into the east part of the state. I heading toward House, New Mexico, and latched onto a mushy storm, flanking it as it moved into a hopefully better environment. Along the way, I took my time, snagging environmental photos of wildflowers, antelope and abandoned, thrashed buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outflow sculptures 15 miles west of Grady, New Mexico \u2014 2042Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the pretty little windmill, pretty little trees, and pretty little fence \u2014 2045Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Antelope and Globe Mallow flowers 3 miles west of Wheatland \u2014 2115Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moseying along with a slow to strengthen storm at Wheatland School and turbines south of San Jon \u2014 2130\u20132139Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Abandoned structure five miles east of San Jon \u2014 2206Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And some other nearby dwellings \u2014 2209\u20132217Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At least there’s a decent precipitation core on it now, six miles west of Glenrio \u2014 2223Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wildflowers weren’t worried at all about this one \u2014 2238Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, as I was taking it easy with this go-nowhere storm, other storms had fired and were going tornado warned along the boundary up in the north Texas Panhandle where I woke up. It’s very frustrating to see that happen. Exactly where I started the day, and I just hadn’t put any thought into that area being worth targeting. So I started to hustle my way north and east, trying to salvage anything out of that clearly productive environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I reached Channing, Texas, I was at least able to sight on a supercell, but it was outflow dominant and not especially photogenic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outflow dominant supercell near Channing, Texas \u2014 0028Z\u20130039Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I tried to have a bit of fun with it, surfing it northeast through Dumas, where it looked pretty ominous over the lights and stacks of a refinery. I finally letting it go near Morse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deep twilight and the gust front over a refinery north of Dumas \u2014 0125Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Letting it go just south of Morse \u2014 0256Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was a rough chase day. After being on the road for ten days, I was pretty tired and not especially focused or confident in my forecasting. After waking up near Boise City, Oklahoma, I decided I’d treat it like a pop-up storm day and try for storms firing off terrain in New Mexico and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,50,40],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-new-mexico","tag-storm-chasing","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}