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to see photos of today's best storm--an awesome supercell that moved off
the Cheyenne Ridge along a morning outflow boundary
Every year it seems there's at least one chase
day where I end up kicking myself for not chasing the "better" target.
Unfortunately, this was one of those days. Unable to chase the previous
day's supercell in CO, today looked like a near repeat performance but
with a stronger cap. I made it to Limon by late morning and drifted
north through the afternoon liking the better shear and a zonal outflow
boundary near the Cheyenne Ridge. I decided to camp out near Snyder
playing a middle ground between north and south targets while patiently
watching the skies. By late afternoon, the cap was still holding
and I was growing concerned. While getting some data, I noticed a
few TCu pop and take off to my west on the front range. I then threw
all the chips in and blasted west towards Ft Morgan to chase what started
off as isolated SVR convection, but just didn't have enough bulk shear
to work with and eventually grew linear. At one point, I was tempted
to shoot north into WY to chase what became THE storm of the day, but instead
stuck it out in CO and made the most of some nice photo ops as several
segmented cells moved towards Sterling.
