Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Set down for the night at the Comfort Inn in Limon, Colorado. Today was fairly exciting, starting with a drive down to Johnson City in far southwest Kansas where we watched a developing cell produce a nice funnel but nothing more. Then we headed back north to Tribune and caught a cell that was producing a land-spout as well as a super-cell tornado. As that weakened, we shot west and moved into Colorado to intercept a cell near Sheridan Lake. Unfortunately, that cell weakened and we decided to move on, only to watch it split and start producing tornadoes right behind us. We quickly ran back south and east to catch up, and were able to see a nice stove-pipe looking tornado on the ground for a few seconds and then a well-contrasted rope trying hard to get all the way to the ground.

From that point on the storm morphed into a high-precipitation mess that obscured pretty much all view of any tornadoes it was producing. We made a few attempts to get out in front of it and get a better view, but soon decided it was best to start making our way back into Colorado. Tomorrow looks decent enough, probably spend the day in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming.

I will add pics as I sort through them.





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