We started the day in Santa Rosa, NM. and chose a target area of Clayton NM. Which turned out to be spot on! We went through Clayton 4 times over the course of the chase.

First stop was Tucumcari home to a railroad museum that seemingly doesn’t have trains, and a Dinosaur Museum with an impressive fossil collection!

After extracting maximum amounts of fun that all Tucumcari has to offer we were back on the road heading to Clayton.

Storms were initially forming to the NorthEast of Clayton with several cells starting and then running out of steam.

After our initial storms started to die we relocated West of Clayton where our storm of the day was developing.

As the storm rolled towards us we were hit with some pretty strong outflow that can best be described as akin to sticking your head out the car in an interstate!

After enjoying some impressive outflow, we decided to relocate South, which was also the right direction for our second night in Amarillo.

Because of the storms position relative to the sun the colors underneath the shelf cloud were incredible. Almost indigo in some places!

As we headed South we were able to get out in front of the shelf cloud and our best view of some structure of the trip so far.

As we began to lose the light we pressed on to Amarillo and dinner at the Big Texan.

We continued to get some lightning a d a rather atmospheric sunset for entertainment on the drive.