Must be something in the water. Just the day before yesterday, I sifted through files from 6-2-05 and decided to reprocess a few. Here's the first one I finished, with Eric Nguyen in the foreground running back to his rental car. We'd been discussing our next navigational option.
Eric and I, along with Houston chaser David Fick, reached the storm as it approached the western fringes of Limon. Softball hail reports came over the radio. For a moment we all split up: Eric continued west (looking for the giant hail), I went north, and Dave south. Dave witnessed a brief tornado, a fully-condensed white cone that I don't believe he's ever posted online. I'll ask him about that image and see if I can link it here later.
Another anecdotal memory from that chase was the morning choice of targets. Southwestern Kansas looked very good, too, if I recall, but with a thermonuclear cap (actually saw that very sounding again during a talk a few years ago in Denver). We'd spent the night in Garden City and it was tough to bail on the Kansas play, and tougher still when Threatnet showed an isolated supercell initiate in the area we'd abandoned. I remember that Kansas storm, around Liberal, perhaps, was tornado-warned, then almost immediately evaporated. Obviously we didn't regret our choice. Structurally, I can't think of many storms which outperformed Limon. For me it's right there with the 5-27-01 haboob and the "Grand Island Mothership" of 5-10-05.
After dinner in Kit Carson, we emerged to discover some cool little storms under a starry, front range night sky. Eric captured this great pic:
His full image & report page from the event is
here.
I'll continue posting more images from this chase to my
permanent report page as time permits.