{"id":10954,"date":"2014-05-20T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:52:31","slug":"may-20-2014-byers-to-burlington-co-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/05\/20\/may-20-2014-byers-to-burlington-co-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 20, 2014 Byers to Burlington, CO supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tempest Tours enjoyed a spectacular and long-lived supercell on Tuesday.\u00a0 I led the group from Ogallala to Sidney, NE, where we had lunch.\u00a0 Most chasers were targetting the E WY\/W NE Panhandle area, but during the early afternoon I became more impressed with the setup in E CO.\u00a0 Moisture and instability appeared to be a little better in E CO, particularly near and along I-70.\u00a0 It looked like the window for good instability up around Torrington and Scottsbluff would be much shorter.\u00a0 So, I decided to plunge south from Kimball at 2 p.m., leaving the hordes behind.\u00a0 Tornado potential today was not particularly good, as dew points were so-so, near 50F from Denver to Burlington.<\/p>\n

As we neared Brush, a good-sized supercell was impacting the Denver area.\u00a0 We continued south to Last Chance, and were due east of the big storm now moving east of Aurora.\u00a0 Westward we went on U.S. 36 to almost Byers, in great position to watch a very large storm base and persistent wall cloud approach.\u00a0 The cell drifted just south of due east, and the action area was just to our southwest from Byers to almost Last Chance.\u00a0 We witnessed numerous little high-based funnels and a couple of good attempts at big ones, but the cell was a little too high-based and undercut with cool outflow to produce a tornado.<\/p>\n

The front end of the storm seemed to surge a little to the southeast as it neared Hwy 71, so we scooted east of Last Chance and south on Road M in Washington County.\u00a0 Near Shaw, the storm looked ready to get really serious again about putting one on the ground, but tornado failure was the name of the game today.\u00a0 Structure improved markedly as the menacing front end chased us east and south to Arriba.\u00a0 Here, we had a good look at the rotating updraft to our north, and I needed all of my 15 mm to fit the storm in.\u00a0 The “Rings of Saturn” made an appearance nearly overhead!<\/p>\n

The storm held our hand down I-70 to Stratton and Burlington, with stops to admire the structure and to allow the RFD to move overhead.\u00a0 We found some cover in Stratton from the two-inch hailstones.\u00a0 The backside of the updraft was quite nice at dusk, and a tornado warning was issued for Burlington.\u00a0 The town appeared to survive this Tuesday unscathed…and our fun, five-hour supercell chase across eastern Colorado was finished!<\/p>\n

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