There is a lot of updating needed to be done

First and foremost, slight risk for NE CO today....expect the unexpected.....heck i love my backyard....well that's all for now

Once my laptop is fixed up....I will upload recent events up to now....but yea whatever....have great day!

June 26th Meso Outflow

This was tornado warned in result of again the mountains...Once off the mountains intense shear along with a dominating outflow choked any chance of a structuring mesocyclone, however looking on radar it had the nice green/red reflectivity circle but this was delayed in terms of the tornado sirens going off....later it converged just east of DIA, which once again structured given there was more inflow which evidently resulted as a tornado producer...I could only see dust getting kicked up looking east at the supercell...Outflow is all I can label since the storm was out of my view as far as specifics

June 14th

My target area was Kit Carson....we intercepted many cells giving every kind of severe weather related phenomenon you can think of...my favorite was watching the outflow getting kicked up west of Limon....this garden variety thunderstorm was CGing the territory, but kicking up a massive dirt roar in the distance...we let the storm pounce over us and give a treat of hail piling onto Michael Carlson subbie....I stood outside waiting for this sucker....I just love standing out in the moment....
Soon after it passed we diddled around Limon waiting for this line storm to knock it off....I saw a cell that bugged me as we were driving east away from Limon...and all of us together knew we needed to go back....south of Limon was a feast of 2 pair cells..
Driving south 71 we intercepted the front which had a beast of a wrapping around action with rain....I was screaming frantically at Michael "ahhhhhhhhh" full of excitement by that point....I was just eager to meet the southeast quadrant where a supercell was forming with radar evidence...this was cool to watch....than we finally hit a road to drive west a little bit to intercept....in this there were low lingering clouds giving way that this system was just starting...a meso formed to our right as the winds were pushing the side of Michaels car towards the meso wrapping around....hail were getting big....this is when Michael got excited that was funny....than Dann was frantic with excitement looking at the creases on the map....I was doing my thing in the backseat....Skinner world....
anyways we finally got to the east side of the cells merging into this forming mesocyclone layering ontop of each other...
oh another favored moment is trying to hold your camera and stand straight up, yet I lost a lot of weight anyways i think I was on the verge of flying...the inflow towards the meso was the second best inflow i've experienced in a long while...the beavers' tail was developing and looking marvelous...this is when we dropped to the southeast and chased!
We stopped to look back to our northwest and Michael spotted a white funnelish cone popping out of the back near the clearslot engulfed in rain....
it was fairly quick, but we were able to get out and watch this for a few as in front of us the meso was developing a wall slowly as it moved eastward....
Running parallel for a bit with this main storm the wall was giving a cone shape lingering lower to the ground....the boundary is the reason for this whole system coming alive the way it did....when it left the boundary it quickly ceased....only 20 more minutes on the boundary and I believe we would have seen a large tornado on the ground.....all in all a very laid back enjoyable chase
Thanks Michael & Dann
if you want to check out their pics on their blogs (DO IT) lol
http://blog.bigskyconvection.com/2009/06/june-14th-2009-chase-teaser.html
http://michaelcarlsonphoto.blogspot.com/2009/06/photosvideo-tornado-warned-storm-south.html

June 13th

It was a day to relax leaving only for nearby chasing....I headed to intercept a GVTH moving north towards Wiggins....it was a CG rainstorm with the classic look of intensity....than afterwards it was rest time....a severe weather system developed over Fort Morgan over the forecasted period of a threat of tornado possibilities...so funnels were spotted by Shep when he intercepted the cell....
I was in Greeley looking to see the beautiful towering cu's breaking through pelius clouds...pretty gorgeous...I just didn't have the energy so it was good that others were out there...



funnel pics on Shep's blog http://cuttothestormchase.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-13th-2009-funnels1tornado.html

June 11th

a few of my favorites:

Colorado Front Range & TX

close to home = fun in CO
TX = fun too with beautiful shortwave......pretty impressive on the tropical jet
tornado outbreak in TX

June 9th Kansas

Sitting on a county road north of Coldwater, KS we were waiting for initiation....on radar was development off the warm front moving NE into Dodge City...I was waiting for the low to retrograde so storms would collide with the boundary....it was roughly an hour after we left this spot to catch the cell moving NE out of OK moving east of Witchita...this is why you never leave your target area....a supercell developed from the initiated cells off the warm front and collided with the boundary moving them SE towards our direction into Greensburg.....a tornado produced 4 miles WNW of Greensburg making the total distance 50 so miles from my original tornado point in Isabel....the storm was progressing in the direction of Isabel but fizzled out....


This was the left moving cell that split off from the main cell in OK

Left moving circulation was a first for me....there was beautiful rotation but not enough to withstand what was soon to be an outflow washout....quarter sized hail fell, but at that point I was disappointed....finding out of missing the supercell of the day....and stuff back in my hometown Greeley.....yes I knew this was going to happen and I took the risk because I believed in my forecast...just didn't follow through.....
The rising towers were fun to watch as there was amazing buoyancy and explosiveness as it moved into high level of CAPE