{"id":6323,"date":"2011-06-27T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2011-12-28T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T04:54:34","slug":"june-27-2011-palmer-divide-supercell-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2011\/06\/27\/june-27-2011-palmer-divide-supercell-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"June 27, 2011 Palmer Divide Supercell Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was the final chase day for the Tour 8\/Doswell group.\u00a0 The previous day featured the murk and messy nonsense in central and eastern NE, so I was ready to head out west for some pristine skies.\u00a0 The outlook for severe weather along Colorado’s front range was rather slim, but the surface flow was upslope and moist enough for some high-based updrafts.\u00a0 We made our way from Cozad to Limon and west to Interstate 25, between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs.\u00a0 This is right along the Palmer Divide:\u00a0 the elevated, favored area for storm formation on many late spring and early summer afternoons.\u00a0 Given the “35-40 knots of deep layer westerly shear” here, according to SPC, I was hoping for a picturesque, isolated, rotating updraft.\u00a0 Well, we got about four of them, one after the other!<\/p>\n

Storm cells went up west of Larkspur (which is along I-25 north of Monument) and moved east.\u00a0 We waited near the Interstate, and moved east a little with one or two of these.\u00a0 The updrafts sputtered east of the Interstate due to a decrease in low-to-mid-level instability, and we headed back to the Interstate as the next pulse\u00a0 strengthened over the mountains.<\/p>\n

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The first couple of cells were unimpressive, but the last two were somewhat strong (see images above).\u00a0 I elected to place ourselves in the path of the core of the last supercell, and we caught a rainbow and some one-inch hail a little south of Larkspur.\u00a0 I was going to continue east with this updraft, but then the sun came out and the light on the backside of the storm was quite nice.\u00a0 We stopped on a hill on the west side of the Interstate a little north of Palmer Lake and set up the tripods.<\/p>\n

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