Next Week

I know its a little early, but I want to put it out there that I think as of the current models my chase target will be Enid Oklahoma on Thursday April 29th.

April 22nd 2010 CO Chase

Part 1




More to post later, but heres a quick still from my tornado footage today of the Cheyenne County Tornado

2352		12 N FIRSTVIEW	CHEYENNE	CO	3900	10254	TORNADO ON NORTH SIDE OFINTERSECTIO OF COUNTY ROAD DD AND COUNTY ROAD 34 MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. (GLD)
0005		14 NNE FIRSTVIEW	CHEYENNE	CO	3902	10246	TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND 4 TO 5 MINUTES THEN ROPED OUT.

April 21nd 2010 Bennett, CO

First Severe Storm Chase of the season! Had lots of hail, was up to 6 inches deep in some areas of pea to marble sized hail. Got some good CGs after the meso died out. Was a fun little chase in the backyard before getting into thursdays forecasted insane day..

April 20th Flagler Area

Today it looks like Flagler area might be a good target. Best surface winds, convergence, low lcls, cape, and position of the lee cyclogenesis. The shear will be good tomorrow, but moisture and energy needs to be amped up a bit. Will have to re-evaluate the models to be more accurate later on this morning.
Yesterday Skinner got some great shots of a cell moving through castle rock area with a nice Meso. Check out his blog!

Me this thursday morning

This will probably be me this thursday morning the way the models are looking right now

April 18th Garden Variety

Some nice convection and a couple little cells that came through weld county today. Skinner was on it since its birth, and I was watching it on GRlevel2AE and decided around 6 that I had to get on it because of the strong shear environment out there today, and the fact that it was so close. Chased it out to Wiggins CO, with skinner not too far. Saw some great lightning, and then it started a fire near a pig farm. The fire got pretty big then it died down as it rained and fire fighters sprayed it. Video as seen on 7 news tonight included.

Tornado Reported Today

A massive squall line came through today, lots of hail and strong winds! A tornado was also reported in Eastern Colorado today. I was messing around with GRLevel2 Analyst Edition for the first time, some pretty cool features. I did not want to go out on it today because I am a little more limited on time and resources this year, and it was a squall line. Not saying that there wasnt some cool stuff to see.. Verne Carlson got some sweet pics today, and I watched some of his live stream, looked like some pretty covered roads by pea sized hail.