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.
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.
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.
Mostly zonal flow across the High Plains provided for a nebulous pattern on June 14th with no real obvious target in mind, however a rather buoyant airmass was in place in Eastern Colorado into Western Kansas that seemed to at least harbor the chance for isolated supercells. The primary threat was large hail and wind as dewpoints seemed too low to warrant much of a low level tornado thread.
June 8th featured an interesting setup across the high plains. A cold front was expected to extend from a surface low in northern Minnesota through South Dakota and Central Nebraska and intersect a dryline near the Kansas/Colorado Border. Behind the front in Northeastern Colorado, a post-frontal upslope regime with maximized shear was forecast.