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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 00:01 Written by Roger Hill

2005

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The last week in May was to prove unfruitful for tornadic supercell development. Very few tornadoes occurred, and even those that formed were weak. Due to upslope flow into New Mexico and Colorado, I would spend the entire week there. I captured numerous supercells, and a couple of weak tornadoes.

This nice classic supercell occurred near Santa Rosa, NM on May 25. Nice bell shaped updraft with an inflow band extending to the right (east). This storm was severe for a couple hours.	Same storm as it produced copious amounts of hail to golf ball size causing hail drifts to form.
LP supercell developing over the White Sands National Park in New Mexico.	HP supercell south of Las Vegas, New Mexico on May 26.
Possible tornado from this supercell. This was looking into the notch of this beast.	Hail from this storm near Las Vegas, NM piled up to 4 inches deep!
Beautiful CG on a rotating supercell near Trinadad, CO on May 30.	Nice lowering was rotating strongly. It never produced a tornado.
Beautiful striated supercell north of Kim, CO on May 30th.	Enhanced photo to show the weak multivortex tornado here. Strong low level rotation was occurring with several condensation fingers reaching the ground with rapid rotation.