{"id":13178,"date":"2015-05-24T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=13178"},"modified":"2015-11-19T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T01:42:16","slug":"may-24-2015-lamar-co-supercell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2015\/05\/24\/may-24-2015-lamar-co-supercell\/","title":{"rendered":"May 24, 2015 Lamar CO Supercell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quite a chase day, this day was. \u00a0The main entree for our group was the Lamar-Granada-Holly supercell. \u00a0We played with a lightning display near Ulysses at dusk, and then shot east to try to get a glimpse of the nighttime tornadic supercell near Ensign, KS.<\/p>\n

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We began in Goodland, and had a delicious BBQ lunch in Syracuse, KS. \u00a0Storms developed by mid-afternoon in southeastern Colorado, and we targeted a big one that was about 10 or 15 miles southwest of Lamar. \u00a0We cut north on 385 to get a look at the front side of the supercell (first pic below). \u00a0The storm was rather slow-moving and we got northeast of it, about five miles south of Lamar, to look into the notch. \u00a0The storm did not produce a tornado, at least for our eyes, and soon we had to bail east of Lamar to stay away from huge hail.<\/p>\n

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We stopped near Granada and Holly to look back to the west at the impressive storm structure of this HP supercell.<\/p>\n

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The storm went a lot more linear as it crossed into Kansas along U.S. 50., and we had a nice laminar band preceding the precipitation area. \u00a0A nice Kansas cop stopped behind the tour group to take us all into custody. \u00a0Not really. \u00a0He was interested in an update on the storm.<\/p>\n

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This activity weakened and became tiresome, so we headed south from Lakin to Ulysses to check out a frequently sparking storm just southwest of Ulysses. \u00a0It was fun trying to get some decent shots of lightning here, but then the storm chased us farther east. \u00a0We kept going east to try to catch up to a newly tornadic storm near Plains, KS. \u00a0This one put down a big tornado or two during the dark, around 10 p.m. \u00a0We got in front of it near Montezuma and Ensign, but it was moving slowly and had weakened and stopped producing tornadoes by the time it neared us. \u00a0We finally got into Dodge around midnight.<\/p>\n

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