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== Most recent mobile blog & photo updates ==
June 14, 2009
We plan to head north from Limon
I think the best 2-hr play is to head north from Limon into Washington
County. SPC Mesoanalysis suggests 3000 J/kg CAPE just upstream of the
area where severe storms were to the northwest of Limon. Once these
storms hit the good moisture east of Limon, they may take on a very
different character. High CAPE and High Shear will likely yield a
very aggressive severe storm/supercell. Stay tuned!
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
4pm CDT update June 14th
We are traveling west on I-70 to Limon, CO, which is about 40 miles
away as I type. There is a big supercell over the north side of
Denver we are watching on radar… and Verne Carlson’s video stream at
times. Pretty cool! Other storms south and east of Denver are
forming, but are still in mid 40s dewpoint air. Farther east =
greater moisture and CAPE, so we will probably wait in Limon for
things to become better organized as the activity from southeast of
DEN to COS is rather unorganized right now. More later.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
6/14 chase day early aftn update
As I type, we are 30 miles south of Oakley, KS with a target of
northeastern Colorado in mind. Earlier this morning, we were thinking
Southwest KS into the OK Panhandle, however, we have decided to
re-target farther north and west given all the mid level cloud cover
with the upper wave across AZ and NM moving out fairly quickly. We
are now playing for upslope/elevated heating generated storms across
northeastern CO. The NAM and RUC suggest fairly aggressive convective
development late this aftn and evening across this area… and upper
tropospheric winds are actually a bit strong across eastern CO
(albeit, mid level winds just a shade lower, but still adequate for
supercells). There is good insolation across the target area with
morning stratus burning off. So we will head to Burlington, CO and
re-evaluate from there… however by that time, we may have a target
storm to chase to our west or northwest. More later.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
June 13, 2009
Chase day is done, heading to Dodge for the night!
We are on our way home, concluding our last photo shoot west of
Liberal of the approaching supercell storm. We followed this thing
all the way from west of Kim, Colorado! However, we really didn’t get
back into a good road network to chase the storm until the Pritchett,
CO area… where we documented numerous gustnadoes. There was a brief
moment where a translucent, tube tornado occurred at the forward flank
of the storm. This was definitely a legitimate tornado, approac 15
SSE of Pritchett, CO at 6pm MDT. Afterwards, the storm became more
outflow dominant, and we followed it to far SW Kansas (Morton
County). We were in “find gas station” mode, and decided that Hugoton
was the best option… The supercell erupted again just west of
Richfield and we photographed one hell of a green looking vault
region.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com