Today was amazing to say the least!  Bagged 4 tornadoes in eastern Colorado; 2 near Deer Trail and 2 near Brush. I was out the door a little past noon targeting the I-70 corridor, particularly Deer Trail as a convergence boundary was bright as day on radar and figured a storm or two might fire [...]

It certainly did feel great to get out on a chase again.  Having said that, it was a sloppy HP mess up in the Nebraska Panhandle.  My expectations for tornadoes today were low as the shear profiles wouldn’t be anywhere near what would be needed for rotating storms.  And as expected, there weren’t any.  Or [...]

Woke up this morning and was none too pleased to see the atomic cap that was going to be parked over eastern CO all day so I was pretty convinced we wouldn’t be heading out.  A few models like the NAM, and 4km WRF did show storms breaking out later in the day but the [...]

Less than a week since my last disappointing chase on the Palmer I am ready to forgive and forget as she didn’t let us down today!  Great local chase with my friend Carl Wells which yielded a quick, brief tornado just W of Limon and some intense moments near Genoa later in the day. We [...]

Headed out this day with Dann targeting the Palmer Divide where some isolated storms were forecasted to pop up.  We weren’t expecting much except maybe a few hailers and possibly some land spouts.  Well, it was pretty much a bust-ola.  We did manage to catch up with Mr. Tony Laubach not too far from Larkspur [...]

The day started with pretty good optimism, not about what we ended up seeing, but more because we thought we would get some decent storms with the great landscapes that are down in southern Colorado.  I picked Dann up at 10AM and after briefly debating about chasing a sleeper target further N near Goodland, KS, [...]

May 25, 2010 – Sheridan Lake, CO & Tribune, KS After getting a good night’s sleep and recharging, I was ready to go again.  This time the action looked to be in E/SE Colorado.  I checked the models that morning and decided that my target would be Kit Carson, CO with a probable drop to [...]

Wow, what an amazing past 4 days it’s been!  I figured it would be easier for me to just do a big sum up post of the past 4 days instead of writing each of them up individually.  The first 2 days will be in this post and then the past 2 days in the [...]

The day started bright and early at 8AM (that’s early for me on a Saturday) not because we had an early departure time but rather because I wanted to look at the morning models to see if we would even be leaving to go anywhere.  The NAM still showed no instability anywhere over Colorado and [...]

I thought about writing this whole thing in French just so most people wouldn’t be able to read about our miserable day.  Then I remembered that I don’t speak french.  Let me translate the title of this post for you though; “We were defeated by the high risk in Wichita, KS.” The day started with [...]