6/10/2010 Reports: CO

[Robert Edmonds]

Still in transit. Counted two tornadoes. Will post more on blog back at hotel room.

Edit: Just cropped a little closer. Have pictures of 2nd but lower contrast, so will post later when I get back at home. Got lucky with construction.

 

[Verne Carlson]

Deer Trail, CO Tornado #1 01:14z (7:14pm MDT)

Deer Trail, CO Tornado #2 02:30z (8:30pm MDT)

And the meso that did it all!

Started the day up on the CO/NE border and then saw that Vortex 2 was coming south back into CO. Checked some data and it was clear that the moisture was not making it up north and was pooling along the front along the Palmer Divide. Three supercells developed. I watched the DIA to Prospect Valley storm for a long time and it was amazing but never produced. It got absorbed into a line and then the southern storm near Deertrail began to dominate. I dropped south to hw36 on dirt roads and watched as the stacked plates meso began to sweep rain shafts around it's updraft base. A clear slot developed and the first tornado dropped. I called it in to 911 and then posted to spotternetwork.org. This tornado lifted so I moved east a bit where the second tornado dropped and danced for quite a while as well. As darkness fell the storm looked like it had the makings of a wedge but there was enough light to see that it did not touch the ground completely.

 

[Michael Carlson]

I just got my windshield replaced today and couldn't make it out to chase eastern CO. Well I guessing being immobile works from time to time.

Funnel Cloud over Parker, CO.

It only lasted 5-10mins so nothing to impressive.

It was also way up there too LOL still a nice sight since I cant follow the storm.

 

[Willoughby Owen]

Colorado turned on quite a show once again! What an incredible show of jaw-dropping structure!

 

[Adam Lucio]

Also caught the same 2 tornadoes from the mother of all motherships. Had a little core punch action with some quarter hail too. A great chase. Finally Colorado showed me its magic and what a show!

 

[Allan Jeffers]

Colorado turned on quite a show once again! What an incredible show of jaw-dropping structure!

BEAUTIFUL shots!

I did not really chase but I got some shots before things moved out of my area and went severe. Can these be posted here? I shot the first four shots up near 56th and airport BLVD. Looking North East









And a nice treat from my back yard:

 

[Eric Bucsela]

Why I love Colorado...

 

[Daniel Barker]

nice day

Saw almost baseball size hail south of Prospect Valley, and two tornados between Deer Trail and Last Chance. Following the northern cell that became dominant I was illuminating a Tex Tech radar truck that was stuck when I noticed twin anti cyclonic funnels that were between Anton and Akron after dark. I saw seven minutes of the twins which was preceded by a single funnel at least as long. No twin pics or anything after dark here.

 

[Steve Miller]

Shooting from just west of Deer Trail, CO looking west. The cell no doubt had incredible structure!



Tornado #1 was mostly video so this is a lousy 'through the windshield' snap of its funnel prior to visual touchdown. Steve (SMTX) and I were about 5 miles east of Deer Trail looking ENE.



We were able to get reasonably close to Tornado #2; watched it munch up a hillside. This shot was from the immediate south looking WNW. I love watching a tornado when it's this benign! Nothing affected here but some dirt and tumbleweed.

Many more photos can be found HERE

 

[Jesse Risley]

I pieced together a raw 4x time lapse of the Last Chance, CO tornado north of Limon based on several camera angles. Perhaps one of the most incredible aspects of the second tornado, which encompasses the second half of the time lapse, was the rope stage near the end of the video.

Structure-wise, this was simply a very impressive storm and it also produced some respectable hail.

 

[Matthew Crowther]

Messed up initially and missed the first two tornadoes because we first chased the T-warned cell uo in northern Weld county- had a great wall cloud but never produced. Recovered in time to get some incredible structure shots and two funnels (the first was probably a tornado at dusk) north of Anton, CO.

 

[Rob H]

James Seitz and I took off from Minneapolis before dawn with an initial target of Kimball, NE. We eventually made our way south to the same Last Chance, CO storm that others were on. One of my favorite chases so far - no mistakes, no stress, and some beautiful pictures of two really nice storms.

Saw a cool shelf cloud on the MCS in NE that we drove through in the morning, saw the 2 CO tornadoes, got some great structure and lighting shots, and punched a fun hail core on the way back into Denver:

 

[Edward Ballou]

Yesterday we had a fairly significant wind event in SD, NE, IA, and MN. The wake low event was discussed here. I had never heard of a wake low before and the article is pretty well done. Top gust was 63 mph in Hendricks, MN. Quite a few limbs were down here in town as well.

 

[Brian A. Morganti]

Brief summary and images from yesterdays Last Chance to Anton structure storm and tornadoes.

http://www.stormeffects.com/recent_events.htm

 

[Adam Adkins]

I was on the storm that put down the tornado but left it for this one shortly before it did. Whoops!