Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Awesome chase. The best day I've had in my five short years of chasing. On what was, at best, a marginal day like Josh said we see the best tornado any of us has ever seen. And, more importantly, the town of Campo, CO was spared and we saw no major damage as we drove back north to get to Goodland, KS for tonight.

This morning it looked possible that we might not even see a supercell as there was no real shear to be had. To make matters worse, convection was projected to fire off later in the afternoon when higher temps would be in place in combination with mid 50s dewpoints, which would yield much higher LCLs and higher based storms making it hard for anything to produce a tornado. As luck would have it though our storm fired off early enough when temps were still lower and sustained itself long enough to favorably intersect an outflow boundary and go crazy. So much for the Storm Prediction Center's 2% tornado probabilities for today ;) Going to try and put up some pics that I took in a bit.

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