June 20th, 2008 Colorado Tornado Warned Supercells
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 19:00 Written by Roger Hill
June 20th kept us in Colorado for a great set up for higher based supercell hailers. We got them! We also caught 3 supercells that were tornado warned, although none produced. Good directional shear, and lift, but only fair moisture was present. Large temperature/dewpoint spreads would keep storm bases fairly high. Storms were pretty structured and produced copious amounts of hail, some places over half foot deep near Eads. Storms also produced very nice CGs which were quite photogenic due to their higher bases. Click on the pic for a larger image.
First supercell, tornado warned, northwest of Kit Carson, Colorado. |
One of many photogenic lightning strikes from this storm. |
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Nice tiered updraft base. |
The high based nature of the storm caused it to produce tons of blowing dirt. |
Final storm of the day north of Limon, also tornado warned. |
Nice lowering formed. We thought it might produce here. |
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Wall cloud gets better organized with wet rfd wrapping around from the west. |
Wide shot of the storm as it gusted out. |
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