August 11th was shaping up to be an interesting day in northeastern Colorado. Upslope flow as expected to bring in moisture and with diurnal surface heating a corridor or MLCAPE around 2,000 J/Kg was expected to setup between Denver and Goodland.
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June 30th was a combination chase/travel day, so the plan was to chase storms along a frontal boundary in Central Nebraska, follow them east, then hopefully be close to home after dark. The forecast was for a surface low in northeast Colorado to drift into southwestern Nebraska. Extending from that low was a warm front to Sioux Falls.
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The weekend of June 29th was one of those that makes you question your sanity with regards to this hobby. A possible two-day severe event across the Northern Plains, but where the Saturday target may be Minot, North Dakota? A 10 hour drive one way? Sure, why not?
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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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