19 year anniversary of this event in Iowa today.
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After abandoning storms SW of Bennett, we dashed northeast to new convection firing near Akron. We unfortunately were stuck behind heavy precip on the backside of the storm and just were out of reach of the AKO tornado, but on that same storm, we found a relatively "intense" landspout tornado on the young storm. The last of the 4 photos below shows the impressive convective structure on the backside of the storm with the dissipating landspout beneath.
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Tuesday - Thursday this week is looking like one of the more interesting stretches of severe/tornadic weather close to the Front Range (within a 1/4 day drive) I've seen in some time potentially. Now I will prepare to eat crow for such an audacious statement.
The 18Z NAM HiRes is coming in hot with rotational updrafts near home tomorrow. I'm not terribly optimistic or certain the thermodynamics will support a robust chase day wrt surface-based supercells, but I may head out to NE CO/SW NE (or possibly KS) if tomorrow's observations suggest adequate destabilization for sustained surface-based convection.
Today is the 5-year anniversary of Tescott, KS, one of my more successful long-distance solo chases. It looks like the severe weather pattern starts getting active again this week.
Today is the 2-year anniversary of some supercell landspouts just southeast of Denver.
A potential landspout tornado (or rather impressive gustnado) just SSW of Prospect Valley on the flanking line of the Keenesburg, CO supercell. This is reported as a tornado on the SPC storm reports page.
First RFD for my season. Not really a chase since I’m near home. Little dust swirl under meso. Near Keenesburg, CO