June 11, 2009 Southeast Colorado Beautiful Supercells
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:09 Written by Roger Hill
June 11th looked like a good setup in Colorado. Good upslope flow, an old boundary, good shear and moisture, would set the stage for tornado warned supercells east and southeast of Pueblo, CO. We intercepted two such storms, both of which had fantastic structure and tried all they could to produce tornadoes. In the end though, weak low level winds would inhibit much in the way of tornado formation.
First storm gets organized and is severe. |
Same storm 20 minutes later and tornado warned. |
Heading south to get in front of it, still tornado warned. |
Second storm gains momentum and also becomes tornado warned. |
Core contains hail 3.5" in diameter. |
Magnificent structured soda can spinning like a top! |
Beautiful structure. |
Long forward flanking line develops. Rock hard convection! |
Wow, what can be said. This was the original northern storm in the first few pics as it took over the show and destroyed the southern supercell. |
Notice the long streaming inflow band feeding into the northeast side of the mesocyclone. |
As close as it came to producing a tornado here as a large truncated cone funnel is present, looking northwest. |
The ripening wheat fields of eastern Colorado with supercell above them. Gorgeous! |
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