 | About This Shoot | Date: 2 June 2011 | Location: CO/KS/OK tri-border area near Elkhart, KS | Shoot Type: Storm Chase | Rating: | Synopsis:
Intercepted the first storms southeast of Campo, CO and followed them east into adjacent far southwest Kansas near Elkhart. After the storms became too outflow dominant with so much dust, I decided to photograph from behind, capturing some amazing lightning and golden scenes at sunset with another brilliant full rainbow just like the day before |
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Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:07:45 -0500
400pm chase update: in Lamar, cumulus developing southwest. Storm forming over Raton Mesa moving northeast to SE CO. 50 degree T/Td spread. Good grief | Well I knew what I was getting myself into. Moisture at the surface
has mixed out... down into the 46-49 degree range as temperatures
approach 100 degrees. I just hope there are some updraft structures
with these storms before it all becomes one big downburst-fest toward
mid-evening. I foresee a repeat of last night with dry (or psuedo
dry) microbursts all over the place. Objectives are mainly lightning,
storm-in-landscape, and taking advantage of golden hour light for
landscape scenes with dramatic sky (crossing fingers on that one).
Will probably be following whatever develops toward Dodge City area by
late evening.
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Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:32:09 -0500
Storm chase in western Nebraska today? | Western Nebraska has my interest. Morning surface analysis shows the
remnant outflow boundary (OFB) from last night's MCS across Kansas.
The OFB extended from near Hays northwest to Hoxie and into far
southwest Nebraska. North of this, winds were out of the southeast...
but south of it... winds were out of the south with dewpoints in the
mid 50s. It remains to be seen how this will evolve through the day,
but there are indications from the NAM, RUC, and HRRR that a surface
low will form over far northeastern Colorado which will allow winds to
back in an area along I-80 from Ogallala up to Alliance. Enhanced
convergence/frontogenesis in this area may lead to initiation of
storms... but it will be late. I'm okay with that. My plan is to go
ahead and chase this one... I am tentatively planning on departing
around 10am for an area between Imperial to Ogallala... and perhaps
points north from there into the sand hills.
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