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You are here: Home / 2015 / June 5, 2015 Strasburg, CO supercell

June 5, 2015 Strasburg, CO supercell

June 5, 2015 By Bill Leave a Comment

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This was the second-to-last chase day for Tour 5.  The tour would end in Oklahoma City on Sunday, the 7th, but I had to fly back home from Denver late in the afternoon on the 5th.  Chris Gullikson assumed the tour director duties, and I followed the tour group west from Norton, KS, into eastern Colorado.  Fortunately for me, the risk for severe weather this day was not too far from Denver.  I might get to see a storm before I had to be at the airport!  Unfortunately for me, there looked to be a decent tornado risk, and that would be primarily while I was sitting in the terminal and/or sitting in the plane.  Oh, well.  I had to work a couple of weekend shifts in order to keep my part-time weather observing job at Point Mugu.

South of Strasburg and Bennett, we came up to an early-afternoon supercell that had been tornado-warned (it produced a tornado east of Parker around 1 p.m. MDT).  The base was very low, the RFD cut was impressive, but it passed by us to the NNE without much of an inclination to produce again.

 

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The day was young and good conditions for severe weather beckoned to the east, from Last Chance and Limon to the Kansas border.  But, I had to say my goodbyes and head on in to Denver.  The tour group was on a tornadic supercell later, near Cope, but the tornado was shrouded by precipitation from their vantage point.

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