{"id":433,"date":"2016-07-01T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=433"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:59:50","slug":"1-july-2016-n-e-of-flagstaff-arizona-storm-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2016\/07\/01\/1-july-2016-n-e-of-flagstaff-arizona-storm-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"1 July 2016 | N & E of Flagstaff, Arizona | Storm Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a nice local storm chase today. I headed west, past Wiliams, to catch storms as they started firing and hopefully ride them east with some road network testing along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little after noon, I took an exit at Welch Road a few miles east of Ash Fork to get some shots as convection was developing to the west. Somebody had kindly donated* a sofa. It was facing the wrong way, but I was not tempted by its mysterious comforts.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furniture spotting on Welch Road east of Ash Fork \u2014 1950Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple other angles as it dared me to get comfy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As cells blew eastward, I cruised up to Williams and took Rt. 64 north to see what would pop up next on the outflow. I stopped a bit south of Valle to watch a transient lowering, as one does when trying to randomly spot landspouts. While I was there, another chaser, Jonathan Triggs, from Grand Canyon Village stopped to say hi before making his way toward Flagstaff. Convection at this point was pretty laid back, wimpy and grungy as I circled back southeast on Hwy 180.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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updraft east of Valle (left) \u2014 2031Z
Tendrils of rain that kept reflexively catching the eye \u2014 2052Z
quick look around at Red Mountain\u2014I need to hike this cinder cone some day \u2014 2119Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Although I\u2019d been hoping for a chance of a developing cell drawing up some vorticity as the gust front passed the San Francisco Peaks, it seemed pretty unlikely at this point. So I decided to run an audit of one of the forest service roads, north of the Peaks in the no-man\u2019s-land between Hwy 180 and 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got about three miles in, before the likelihood of getting stuck and busting my car in the rocky, cratered road became too great. I stopped and found a spot to hike up a hill to get some shots of a pretty decent cell popping up north of the Peaks by that time. Lots of terrain mostly blocked the view as it continued eastward and joined a strong line of storms that moved off onto the Navajo and Hopi Reservations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking east at a cell developing north of the San Francisco Peaks \u2014 2159Z
Some wildflowers in the area starting to like the recent rain \u2014 2203Z
Rain core getting established \u2014 2207Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>After shooting a few angles, I made my way back down toward Hwy 180 and did a bit of Coconino Cow Spotting before calling it a day.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gate guardians and bossy momma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>*dumped<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a nice local storm chase today. I headed west, past Wiliams, to catch storms as they started firing and hopefully ride them east with some road network testing along the way. A little after noon, I took an exit at Welch Road a few miles east of Ash Fork to get some shots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,41,40],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-arizona","tag-livestock","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}