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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:04 Written by Roger Hill

2009

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June 13th was the arrival day for my next tour. As such, Murphy's Law always seems to be in place! After a visit with Caryn at her horse show (which she kicked butt!), I frantically drove to the hotel, grabbed all the guests and off we went to chase this beast, just north of my house! It was a fantastically structured monster, with a classic supercell appearance, clear slot with rapid rising scud east of it, long streaming beaver tail and barber pole appearance to the updraft. Although it did not produce any significant tornadoes, it did produce two small, but photogenic tornadoes. I was in such a hurry I forgot to grab my still camera, but I always have my dashcam to shoot video and grab a few stills from.

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Looking northwest, this pretty structured supercell is tornado warned north of Byers, CO.	Wall cloud gets better organized as precip blob wraps around it.
Funnel forms under the rapidly rotating wall cloud north of Byers.	Tornado!
Tornado lifts, but funnel develops into a truncated cone	Funnel ropes out.
Driving east of Hoyt, CO, a rope tornado stabs down!	Large truncated cone funnel as storm is still rotating wildly.