Tis the season for severe weather, and the end of the workweek will be no different across eastern New Mexico and far western Texas. A few clusters of severe thunderstorms packing large hail and destructive wind gusts will pepper the southern Rockies and western High Plains. The instigator for this afternoon and evening`s fresh thunderstorms will be a series of potent upper-level low pressure systems rounding the eastern flank of a huge bubble of high pressure smothering the West in atypically toasty temperatures for early-June standards. The initial storms will develop along the hilly terrain of the southern Rocky Front Range in New Mexico, before sliding toward the Mexico and Texas border. As evening becomes nightfall, the storms will converge into a few powerful clusters of destructive storms, with one pushing into south-central New Mexico and the other rumbling into far western Texas. The chief concerns within each cluster of fresh thunderstorms will be damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph and very large and destructive hail topping golf ball size. Cities such as Roswell and Las Cruces, N.M., and El Paso, Texas, will need to keep a watchful eye to the sky for threatening storms later today. Additionally, the thunderstorms will pack a punch of frequent and dangerous lightning, as well as could trigger localized heavy rainfall and brief flash flooding episodes. Locally, rainfall totals could push 1 inch by the storms finally fade tonight. Remember, if you approach a roadway covered in water, make sure to, "Turn Around, Don`t Drown." It hasn`t been that far-removed since severe weather caused problems across the southern Rocky Front Range and western Texas. On June 2, several hail and high wind reports accompanied powerful storms, with one such storm producing quarter-size hail near El Paso, Texas. Thunderstorms also damaged trees near San Eli High School in El Paso, Texas, where rain submerged roadways as well.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:54:55 +0000
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