5/29/07 NOW: CO/KS/NB

[Mark Farnik]

I'm the McDonald's in Fort Morgan checking data attm. I am rolling out the door to Brush and then will be shooting down Highway 71 to intercept the Limon supercell. Best of luck to all!

 

[Greg Stumpf]

Wow, what a DBZ core between Limon and CO. Springs! Anyone wanna get good hail footage? Seriously, gotta be careful with that thing!!

Although I'm not sure this poster inferred this, I wanted to point out that reflectivity values are not necessarily proportional to hail size. Large quantities of small wet coated hail can be extremely reflective (> 70 dBZ), and extremely large and widely scattered hail can have "low" reflectivities (50s to low 60s).

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

Not all that interesting stormwise, but those counties in sw NE have to be seeing some serious serious flooding, and/or will. Northern Hayes county was showing over 8 inches on radar yesterday, and it's all lined up right over there again. http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=lnx&product=NTP&overlay=11101111&loop=no

That's got to be getting nasty around there, with what looks like a long night of heavy rain(ruc hammers that area).

I have been watching that as well, it was amazing how they were training for so long over that area yesterday, now today and what looks to be much of tonight I'm not real sure how well that area drains but regardless, with that much rain there will be some serious flooding. I think a lot of that area drains into the Republic river, for years KS has been throwing a fit about not getting their fair share of water, well here you go KS have all the water you want.

 

[Grant Gutierrez]

The cell to the W of Limon is dying out but cells behind it look to be building up. We'll have to see if they can get as strong as the first cell (2''+ hail reported on SPC).

 

[Bob Schafer]

Quick... Check out the view from this webcam in Pueblo:

http://www.instacam.com/showcam.asp?id=KOAAT&size=L

I have a couple images saved...

 

[Dick McGowan]

http://www.koaa.com/wxfn/cams/ One with multiple views. Pueblo has to bet getting hammered with hail from this beast.

Edit: N/m, those are different cities.

 

[Ilya Neyman]

Although I'm not sure this poster inferred this, I wanted to point out that reflectivity values are not necessarily proportional to hail size. Large quantities of small wet coated hail can be extremely reflective (> 70 dBZ), and extremely large and widely scattered hail can have "low" reflectivities (50s to low 60s).

Interesting to note about the reflectivities. Sleet, too can cause anomalously high values, but is simply due to its nature and reflectivity associated with the radar beam.

The hail reports received by SPC so far this afternoon have accumulations of hail as well as very large hail i.e. 2.5" in diameter so these things have been packing quite a whallop!

 

[Bob Schafer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18865856/

Story about hail in Denver today, with a nice picture of... the... ummm... HAIL, guys, the HAIL. [edit: White nylons, flip-flops, denim skirt and hooded parka. Now there's a clever ensemble you don't get to see every day, eh? What's that TV show? "What not to wear", or something?]

BTW, at first I thought it said "grapefruit" sized hail, then realized it was grape. Slight difference, LOL

Another story with cool pic:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5560332,00.html

 

[Stuart Robinson]

I just got back from the Limon cell - HUGE OFB now surging SSE from the cells to the north have undercut it - looks like today is over

 

[Dick McGowan]

I thought this was pretty cool, near La Junta Colorado in Otero county, after the OFB passed through.....(White box in the center) 46 knot gust! It's too bad it killed off that Pueblo storm too.