Yesterday, we started out the day in Limon, CO. I was not impressed with the setup and was thinking of packing it in and going home. JoAnna talked it over with me and cheered me up, so we went chasing.
We left Limon for Fort Morgan, where we stayed for a little while- picked up a few things at the Walmart and such. Then, we jogged northeast to Sterling. We hung out in a park and then the rest stop in Sterling and waited for storms to fire.
A few fired early, but were really disorganized. JoAnna noticed a pattern with them, so we decided to catch the next one before it formed, and it seemed to work. We drove through the Pawnee Grasslands and saw the next disorganized cell.
We continued north, stopping at Kimball for a few minutes. We had the option of going east into a bit of non-severe mess, or west, out of the storm entirely. We chose west, as we were losing daylight and figured we could get a mammatus show at sunset, versus getting caught in lots of rain and hail from the rapidly-congealing line.
We lucked out. We watched the mammatus from the first storms and then watched two more storms build on the rear end, right up until dusk.
After that, we dropped back south to Fort Morgan and spent the night at the Rodeway Inn.
Our route for the day:
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The forecasts from the National Weather Service are from The NWS Homepage. The upper air soundings and mesoscale analysis plots are from the Storm Prediction Center website. The satellite data, model data, and forecasted soundings are from College of DuPage – SATRAD
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