Start: Santa Rosa, NM/Quick bite in Trinidad, CO/End: Oakley, KS/653 miles
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A good severe-weather risk with a 10 percent tornado area existed today for northeastern Colorado. We had another long drive in front of us and were on the road out of Santa Rosa, NM, early enough, I thought. But storm development was early (around noon), and we were playing catch-up. The first three photos below show the initial strong updraft in the Pueblo area, from between Trinidad and La Junta.
A tornadic cell developed not too far from Last Chance, but we were still well to the south on Hwy 71, near Rocky Ford. Storms were moving quite swiftly towards the NNE today, so we were not going to catch that one. Once on I-70, we played around with a handful of other marginally severe storms, some with tornado warnings. But, it seemed that even by mid-afternoon that the atmosphere was finished with regard to severe weather. We didn’t observe anything particularly noteworthy, unless you count very strong winds and occasionally heavy rain. We ventured into northwest Kansas at St. Francis to watch a strong but very wet cell at sunset.
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