On June 18th, Brian and Keith and I got the Tour 7 group back into Oklahoma City by early-afternoon, and later we began our trek to Denver to be in place for Tour 8 on June 20th. On the 18th we could see some distant storms to the west and southwest from the Woodward area. The storm north of Liberal produced three-to-four inch diameter hailstones! I wish we had been a lot closer to that thing.
On the 19th, we loitered around Colby, hoping for a long-shot severe storm somewhere near I-70 from northwest Kansas to Denver. Vigorous storm towers blossomed a few counties to our east, towards Beloit and Concordia. This is where we would have liked to have been, but we were on a leash. The storms to the east were briefly tornadic, HP supercells. We blew that off and headed to Denver. High-based but semi-interesting “junky-virga-bomb”-type convection greeted us in the vicinity of Brush.
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