This post is less of a chase log and more of a dump of photos. June 25th featured an enhanced risk of severe storms in Southeast Nebraska and Northeast Kansas into Missouri as a frontal boundary was forecast to sag across the Missouri Valley.
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June 22nd featured a couple of targets for chasing. A cold front was expected to slide across the plains from Kansas into the Texas Panhandle extending from a low in Northern Kansas while a post-frontal upslope regime was also expected to take hold in Eastern Colorado from the I-25 corridor east. Since I’m not a fan of southeast-northeast oriented cold fronts and I really dig chasing in Colorado, this made the decision easy.
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June 21st featured a couple of areas of interest across the central US for severe weather. An enhanced risk existed downstream of an MCS marching across Iowa and two other slight risk areas in North Dakota and Eastern Colorado. I’m partial to playing Colorado upslope, especially given that the following day appeared to be in Colorado as well.
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June 20th was the start of a 3-day mini chase vacation late in the season. The forecasts were looking like a day in Northeast Nebraska/Western Iowa followed by a Colorado chase then a third day yet to be determined. The first day featured two possible targets, one in southeast Montana and another along the Nebraska/Iowa border. Since the 20th was a partial work day Montana was out of the question, so Northeastern Nebraska it was!
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June 17th wasn’t really a chase day, but there was a slight risk of thunderstorms northwest of town into the Nebraska Panhandle along an inverted trough that spread back to a surface low in Colorado. Moderate shear on the order of 20-30kts meant some marginal supercellular structures were possible.
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