August 1st, 2001 Lincoln County, CO Supercell & Tornado
Last Updated on Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:38 Written by Roger Hill
Interesting set up this day. Another boundary lay east of Denver with a nice winds shift and pseudo-dryline running from Ft Morgan to Limon. Air to the east was very moist and unstable. By mid afternoon isolated storms developed on the boundary. They started fairly high based as shown in the first couple pics below. As early evening arrived, the bases lowered as temps dropped and the dews rose. A nice supercell developed west of Limon and tracked north, then east across Lincoln county. This storm had awesome structure with a nice vault, shelf, tons of CG and even a small landspout tornado. By dark the storm weakened as the atmosphere stabilized, but not before leaving an incredible image etched in my mind.
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Storm gets going with the foreground of sunflowers.
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Still high based, but made for a nice shot with the old farmstead.
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Hail to ping pong ball size falls.
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Wall cloud forms.
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Storm gets HP look to it and was very electrified.
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Intense CG strike.
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Gorgeous shelf forms.
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CG through the shelf cloud.
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About 2 hours later, shelf is impressive!!
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Large tornado??? Actually lot of dirt near the notch of this HP supercell.
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More dirt with a nice foreground of an old windmill.
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Tornado!!! This is a landspout. Check out the debris cloud with a needle funnel extending to the right to a small funnel at the base in the upper right.
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