{"id":710,"date":"2015-06-05T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=710"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:17:25","slug":"5-june-2015-northeast-colorado-storm-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2015\/06\/05\/5-june-2015-northeast-colorado-storm-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"5 June 2015 | Northeast Colorado | Storm Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our third chase day came after a very late night of bailing out of our hotel as a tornado-warned storm approached Limon at 2:30 in the morning. But a hotel stay is awesome after sleeping in the car the night before, and we were close to our target area between Limon and Denver. Insolation was a problem and I think the morning’s cloud cover hurt potential for the day, but we still wound up on several supercells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We caught our first two storms on Kiowa-Bennett Road east of Denver. We followed the second one for about an hour. I made an attempt to get ahead of it on Rector-Leader Road, northeast of Byers, but had to back off. The dirt road was turning to mud the further north we went, and gust front moving in too quickly to give it a shot.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wall cloud on supercell #1 from Kiowa-Bennett Road \u2014 2015Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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TIV looking for another target on Kiowa-Bennett Road (top left)<\/a>
Rain free base on supercell #2 from Kiowa-Bennett Road (top center) \u2014 2055Z<\/a>
Gust front south of Strasburg (top right) \u2014 2120Z<\/a>
Advancing shelf on Rector-Leader Road (bottom left)\u2014 2200Z<\/a>
The closest we could get (bottom right) \u2014 2205Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Road options wouldn’t let us stay on that storm, so we bailed on it. While storms 60 miles to the east were getting ready to spin up tornadoes, we waited for another close optin to roll up from the southwest. This one was more strung out, but still nicely structured as it crossed Highway 36 and morphed into a beautiful shelf north of Last Chance.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storms 60 miles to the east that eventually produced tornadoes (left) \u2014 2230Z
Watching as supercell #3 moves in between Byers and Last Chance (right) \u2014 2230Z<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Supercell #3 crossing Highway 36 east of Byers \u2014 2235Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gust front between Byers and Last Chance \u2014 2240Z<\/a>
Storm moving over Shamrock \u2014 2300Z<\/a>
Terraced shelf cloud north of Last Chance \u2014 2355Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that, I decided to head east to see if we could thread to the other side of a couple tornado-warned storms near Kirk. It was a long shot, and didn’t work out, but we eventually wound up in spectacular country along Highway 385. The lightning show north of Wray wound things down for the day.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back side of supercell #4 facing east from Kirk \u2014 0100Z<\/a>
Sunset on the landscape south of Wray \u2014 0150Z<\/a>
Lightning show north of Wray \u2014 0245Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Our third chase day came after a very late night of bailing out of our hotel as a tornado-warned storm approached Limon at 2:30 in the morning. But a hotel stay is awesome after sleeping in the car the night before, and we were close to our target area between Limon and Denver. Insolation was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,40,6],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-colorado","tag-storms","tag-supercell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}