Again

Another round for Colorado today. A little bit more of a tornado risk, but well see. Skinner and I plus production will be out today, yesterday was chaos chasing solo, trying to drive, navigate, film and report, with multiple weather hazards in severe to extreme levels, so it will be a lot more relaxing and organized hopefully.

June 10th 2009

Got on a severe cell off Fort Collins and it produced a funnel over Windsor, filmed it from Greeley. Then followed the cell as it went south east, cored the cell got golfball hail, then saw the hp beast, then cored it again trying to get off dead end roads right when it looked like it was going to produce a tornado and that was when the roggen tornado was reported. The winds in the core started to tilt my vehicle. I then got back in front of it, had to drive home because i forgot my wallet and I was low on gas, drove on some dirt roads with severe flash flooding, cars almost got swept away.

Tornado risk for Colorado again

Today there is a little bit of a tornado risk once again, a severe thunderstorm warning just was issued for laramar and weld counties, my alert system was going off like crazy so I'm jeting out of here like a firefighter lol.

June 9th 2009

Today skinner made a great forecast, we waited around southeast of dodge city for a couple hours this afternoon. The cell of the day and tornado was exactly where we waited, however we left!!! an hour before it happened we got storm add and went to the cells near Wichita KS and then it happened. We saw an awesome cell, good striations and it almost tornadoed. It is good to see that I can have confidence in Skinners forecasting after today, and that he really can think ahead of the system. Production was with us today and it made another great segment.



Ok now I know alot of people are wondering well what about Colorado. We were not there... why do u ask? because it wasnt the best target. Yes it had a risk and a chance but we wanted to go with what would be the cell of the day...Dodge City, KS. When we left Colorado this morning we knew tornadoes were possible, if you dont believe me read my status on facebook from earlier this morning. Luckily it was just a funnel cloud, we take a lot of chances to get the best shot, so sometimes that means leaving the storms at home.

Funnel Cloud in Broomfield

June 9th 2009

Skinner, Chris (Production) and I are headed to Coldwater, KS right now for our initial target area. We had an early start getting ready in Denver after leaving greeley at 5am. Still some forecasting to come to narrow things down but today will be pretty much cut and dry where we will want to be. I am pretty confident we will see a tornado today

Tornado Risk has been extended into Northern and Eastern Colorado!

FORECAST SOUNDINGS E OF THE TRIPLE POINT AND NEAR THE
OUTFLOW/WARM FRONT SHOW FAVORABLE PROFILES FOR SUPERCELLS
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...
AND ISOLATED STRONG TORNADOES.

June 8th 2009

Today started out looking pretty good, with the surface obs, the Denver cyclone setting up, the low level wind shear and some cape. I decided Palmer would be the best target because of that cape, and low level stuff, up north there was better bulk shear, but not as much cape. I saw this storm develop over Denver, as I was driving i could see some great wind shear, I was wondering if it was going to tornado. As I got more out in the open we saw a funnel cloud half way extended to the ground not far in front of us. It dissipated quickly and then the storm weakened. It did have some nice looking mammatus clouds and rain bows lol. Since the storm looked like crap we went and explored an abandoned missile silo and I ran through the sprinklers.

June 7th 2009

Today was an epic day for colorado, there were many tornadoes touching down in Denver and east off I 70. Skinner Becca and I were chasing north near greeley, got some large hail but we were late to the show off the palmer. If you go to www.thedenverchannel.com then you will see numerous pictures of the tornadoes that touched down in denver. Because of a shortwave, windshear, and good upslope with a good moisture supply these tornadoes had the environment needed to form. Becca was teaching me about the Denver Vorticity Convergence Zone where flow and pressure perturbations over the palmer with the downslope component from the mountains. Here is a video of a collaberation of a set of pictures I took every second of the meso that was the Denver tornado producer when it was east of deer trail. We did see a tornado start to form, there was a funnel above and circulation on the ground, but did not condensate all the way. Was a frustrating day that we missed the action.