{"id":9852,"date":"2013-06-15T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T01:47:15","slug":"june-15-2013-atwood-co-supercell-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2013\/06\/15\/june-15-2013-atwood-co-supercell-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"June 15, 2013 Atwood, CO supercell sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 15th was the changeover\/down day for Tempest, between tours 6 and 7.\u00a0 Our group began in Kimball, NE, and made the easy drive into Denver to drop the guests off.\u00a0 Tour 7 would begin the following morning.\u00a0 There was a risk of severe weather in northeastern Colorado, however.\u00a0 SPC showed a slight risk over much of northeastern CO, with a 5% tornado area.\u00a0 Instead of washing the van and getting the oil changed, Chris G. and I grabbed a couple of stray Tempest guests and headed back out to onto the High Plains Playground.<\/p>\n

It looked like the favored area for initiation would be the Cheyenne Ridge, and we needed to be in position to catch any cells coming off of the ridge and moving to the right, into northeastern Colorado.\u00a0 We watched a storm cell sputter for a while near the CO\/WY\/NE triple point.\u00a0 We stayed on its south side from about Grover, eastward to Highway 71.\u00a0 After an hour or two, the storm began to look more like a supercell, with a big clear slot and a large base.\u00a0 It began to move more to the southeast as we and it neared Highway 71, and some ping-pong-ball-sized hail bounced off of the van.\u00a0 The road network was kind of sparse, and we decided to go into “structure observing” mode by heading south to Highway 14.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the storm was isolated and picturesque, but it was high-based and less-than-amazing structurally.\u00a0 Our group watched from Highway 14, west of Sterling, for quite a while as the cell drifted off to our northeast.\u00a0 It didn’t seem like there was any good reason to stay with it, especially because we would be going back to Denver this evening.\u00a0 But, new updrafts were rapidly going up just to our south!\u00a0 We went south maybe 8 miles or so, and stopped beneath an active updraft base.\u00a0 This was also high-based, but a great RFD cut was causing plenty of swirling motions and impressive cloud features nearly overhead.\u00a0 This was not too far from Atwood, CO.<\/p>\n

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As the sun set and the light softened, the colors on the back end of the cell to our east just got better and better!\u00a0 We were glued to our cameras and very happy to be in eastern Colorado!\u00a0 On our way back to Denver, we stopped for a while near Snyder to shoot the lightning with a weak cell to the west.<\/p>\n

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