Start: Garden City, KS
Lunch: Lamar (Sonic and McDonalds)
End: La Junta, CO
425 miles
There were no mesoscale discussions for Eastern Colorado and the High Plains today.
Plenty of spectacular chase days have taken place on and about May 30 through the years, but this year the weather pattern was downright lousy. Moisture on the central Plains continued to be in short supply beneath decent WNW flow aloft. From Garden City, KS, we had the option of heading towards the KS/MO border and the marginal risk area. (The E CO/W KS area was in the “general thunder” outline by SPC.) But the next day was looking somewhat decent on the High Plains as moisture increased a bit, so it didn’t seem like a great idea to bounce back and forth across Kansas during a blah pattern. Today had SOME potential for a pretty storm, and SPC added a marginal risk for eastern Colorado in their 20Z outlook. We were working with dew points under 50F, though, south of I-70.
We watched a storm tower north of Sheridan Lake for a while, and were then dragged east to Tribune, Kansas. The updraft there fizzled, and back west we went to see the sunset and some really weak convection near the ruins around Arlington. Some lightning south of La Junta capped off the evening.
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