{"id":743,"date":"2015-06-03T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=743"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:46:04","slug":"3-june-2015-elizabeth-colorado-storm-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2015\/06\/03\/3-june-2015-elizabeth-colorado-storm-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"3 June 2015 | Elizabeth, Colorado | Storm Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was the first day of a five-day chase on the high plains with my daughter. After overnighting in the car near the New Mexico-Colorado border on I-20, we made our way up to Castle Rock and watched for initiation along the front range. Before long, a worthy tower went up to our southwest and got sheared into an impressively long escalator of cumulus.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Convection southwest of Castle Rock \u2014 2030Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We repositioned further southeast to the east side of Lake Gulch to get in front of it and watch it develop. Before long, we had a beautifully sculpted supercell over the gorgeous Colorado landscape. This is such an incredible place to watch a storm evolve.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Supercell over Perry Park \u2014 2115Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Supercell and gust front over Perry Park and Elizabeth \u2014 2130-2255Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We eventually found ourselves east of Kiowa on Highway 86 as the storm grew more linear and started to wither away.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old and new cells along Rt 86, east of Kiowa \u2014 0005Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Further west, another cell had taken over and was looking pretty serious as it moved over Elizabeth. Rotation developed in the base as it drifted eastward, but it never wrapped up tightly enough to do more than that.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New supercell churning over Elizabeth \u2014 0023-0040Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wildflowers and messy RFD core east of Kiowa (left) \u2014 0050Z
Wildflower and departing supercell near Spring Gulch (right) \u2014 0140Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We followed it as it started to move more to the northeast getting an excellent twilight lightning show out of it before calling it a day.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twilight view of a departing supercell from Wilson Creek \u2014 0300Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the first day of a five-day chase on the high plains with my daughter. After overnighting in the car near the New Mexico-Colorado border on I-20, we made our way up to Castle Rock and watched for initiation along the front range. Before long, a worthy tower went up to our southwest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,40,6],"class_list":["post-743","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\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}