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
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