6/19/07 DISC: CO / KS / OK / TX

[Stan Rose]

Moral of the story; you snooze you lose! I felt the tornado threat was too low to justify going w/o sleep to chase this afternoon, shoulve known that 4K CAPE and a terrific boundary would create some magic. The amazing thing in reviewing sat data is that the tornado in Pritchett formed before a single lightning strike was recorded, and only one strike occured afterward before the small storm exited CO! Crazy.

 

[Shawn Scovel]

And you know, that storm developed so fast... I remember watching things develop out of that area as we were heading out of Pueblo (coming home from vacation in colorado springs.) Things really intensified when we hit the construction zone 20 miles or so north of springfield... shortly after we were through the zone, the tornado was on the ground... It didnt last very long, but still was a sweet site to see!

-Shawn

 

[Eric Flescher]

Tornado Touches Down In Pritchett nice pics at this link

Isn't weather amazing that big threats produce zilch and little threats give tornadoes? As we know , you never know.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/8076827.html
Tornado Touches Down In Pritchett
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Posted: 3:01 PM Jun 19, 2007
Last Updated: 5:57 PM Jun 19, 2007
Reporter: KKTV

A tornado warning was issued in Baca County early Tuesday afternoon.
The tornado was on the ground at 2:25 p.m. Tuesday one mile northwest of Pritchett, which is in southeastern Colorado, near the border.
Local law enforcement originally reported the tornado. Golf ball sized hail was also reported in the area.

Paul and Lori Traver and Elmer Briles sent these pictures to 11 News.
Image Gallery for Tornado Touches Down In Pritchett

 

[Shawn Scovel]

Yeah, I was sitting at a gas station as all of the law enforcement passed my location... according to my watch the tornado was on the ground at 2:08 and had been on the ground for roughly 3 minutes before that (i was making sure authorities were called at the gas station.) It was roughly 5-10 minutes before 2 firetrucks passed to respond to the scene and another 10 minutes before the 1st patrol car passed. I assume he was coming from the actual city of springfield. By the time that car got to the general area the tornado had dicipated and left a cloud of dust from the debris picked up.

 

[Tony Phillips]

Super Cell T-storm

did anybody hear about the T-storms that erupted last night in Tulsa, B.A, Osage, and several other county's in Oklahoma? i wish i'd had my camera with me or I'd upload a few pics of the lightning.

i also heard on the news from just before it all blew-up that the possibility for a super cell t-storm was possible, along with flooding, high winds in excess to 60 MPH, and hazardous lightning, as well as the possibility for Tornadoes, though rotation was recorded, none touched down, though some trees and high tencion lines were knocked down in the storm, and a few businesses lost roofs, or parts of roofs, as well as a few stormed out cars left in the middle of the flooded roads, last night was fun.

(6/19/07)

 

[Jeremy Miller]

Welcome to Storm Track!. I saw the storms on national mosaic last night. I had severe t-storms roll through my area with small hail and damaging winds. Had numerous calls for my dept to respond to trees and wires down. Also a couple reports of tree's on houses. That turned out to be tree limbs blown onto roofs. No injuries. That was with a pre-frontal trough. Then as the main cold front made its way through had some embedded thunderstorms with heavy rain and gusty winds, not much in the way of cloud to ground lightning. I'm assuming due to low tops and lack of dirunal instability to help get the storms to build deeper into the atmosphere so there could be a better electric feild as opposed to weaker updraft, smaller towers lower tops. Maybe one of the meteorologists could verify this for me.

Thanks for posting!, again welcome!
Jeremy

 

[Shawn Scovel]

I did get to see the storms that rolled through Amarillo and down to Lubbock and those were HEAVY with lightning and hail... with that storm also, I saw some of the most amazing/well defined mammatus clouds I have ever seen! I know there was some storm damage to a couple roofs in lubbock and upon returning to home to Killeen, Tx large tree limbs (1 largw in our yard) were down and from what I hear we had tons of rain over the last week or so (been on vacation in CO.) but other than that, it was a very interesting trip home none the less