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Chinook

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  1. Chinook
    Sunset over the mountains, 6/11. Some reddish tint to the sky may be related to fires over Colorado, Utah, and a new fire that is 35 mi southwest of Laramie WY. I saw the smoke plume of that fire today, as it is only 60-65 miles away. One thing is for sure. I never got a good picture of sunset over the mountains when I lived in Ohio.
  2. Chinook
    Hurricane Bud peaked at 115 kt, as of the early-morning NHC discussion. Here is the satellite image that best represents Bud's maximum intensity (midnight, Pacific time)
  3. Chinook
    tornado reported near this hook-shaped area of a storm. This is near Fremont NE and the radar.
  4. Chinook
    The Midwest has been something like +7.5F for these two weeks. My area has been about +7 to +9 degrees F this week. Denver was 12.3 degrees above normal from Sunday to Saturday. Fort Collins tied a record high of 95 on Tuesday. This area typically doesn't get much 95's before June 15th.
  5. Chinook
    This radar image makes it seem likely that the tornado tracked near or over I-35 in Iowa. This is kind of far from the ARX radar.
  6. Chinook
    tornado watch likely to be issued near or north of Cedar Rapids IA
  7. Chinook
    With the first named storm, Aletta, now we have rapid intensification to a category 4 storm where nobody was expecting it.
  8. Chinook
    I found some bolts from a small storm near Loveland. Perfect setting to get a view of this storm from 10-20 miles away. I did this with a normal digital camera and I played it on Windows media player. I slowed down the play speed and stopped it at this moment.
  9. Chinook
    Here's a terrific picture of a tornado in the Laramie plain area, 7100 ft
  10. Chinook
    It's nice to get a storm picture like this, with yellow/orange light near sunset. These storms are in northern Weld County
  11. Chinook
    according to what I have heard, there was a highly damaging hailstorm in Dallas- Fort Worth
  12. Chinook
    It's kind of cool how you can see this connected gust front (fine line) from the Omaha vicinity to Grand Island or Hastings
  13. Chinook
    The first tornado near Cheyenne last week, was in fact on some lonely hilltop at 7900 ft in the foothills section between Cheyenne and Laramie. I'm sure the terrain helped concentrate some of the convergence, leading to the storm producing more tornadoes north of Cheyenne, in flatter terrain. (see my post about this in the Mountain West thread if you want to see the radar image of the first tornado)
  14. Chinook
    these supercells in Wyoming have produced a funnel cloud and a tornado, before moving toward Devil's Tower (filming location of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind")
  15. Chinook
    GOES-17 will be the new satellite to become GOES-W over the Pacific Ocean. Right now, it appears to be in the testing phase at a central orbit (90 deg. West)
  16. Chinook
    Perhaps this could be classified as a derecho. It would be fun to see a wind of 60mph for a minute or two.
  17. Chinook
    Four tornado warnings. This could be almost as interesting as Tropical Storm Alberto. 5 preliminary tornado reports east of Limon.
  18. Chinook
    The storms developed over Loveland and Fort Collins quickly, but it isn't severe. The mesoscale models showed this sort of thing, so it's not too much of a surprise. Maybe winds of 30mph or more. And, for what it's worth, my GRLevel3 program is not getting any new information from the NWS data servers. The data is quite old. Thankfully, rest of the internet seems to have the data up to the minute.
  19. Chinook
    There have been some tornado warnings in Wyoming. This one apparently produced a tornado in the Laramie Range foothills near Vedawoo hiking and climbing area. Also in here you can see that traffic on I-80, uphill from Cheyenne, helps reflect the radar extremely well.
  20. Chinook
    My area got slammed with hail for about 1/2 hour from 6:00 to 6:30. Thankfully, it was smaller hail. The hail depth was 2". There may have been 1.5" of precipitation.
  21. Chinook
    We have had some dew points up above 50 today. this potentially severe storm is tracking N to NNW toward Loveland.
  22. Chinook
    Areas of NE Colorado got 0.3" to 4.5" of rain within the last week. Unfortunately, it is still pretty much a drought for the south and west portions of the state.
  23. Chinook
    256 days since severe thunderstorm watch for IWX, DTX, GRR. That's a long time. Ususally some severe watches get issued in Fall and Spring.
  24. Chinook
    NWS issued a flash flood warning for Boulder (including their own office), as 1.5" of rain has fallen in 1 hour. It could be headed toward me.
  25. Chinook
    For a couple of hours, my area had 56-57 dew points, leading to this analyzed 4000 J/kg over Larimer County low mountains and Cheyenne. Even Reed Timmer impressed.
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