SluggerWx Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Do most storms develop in June in CO? Do storms tend to fire closer to Denver after a majority of the snow melts in the Rockies? It kind of seems that way since I've been in Denver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 The Front Range cities will see a slight chance of a thunderstorm in the next few days-- today through Saturday. Each of these days, deep layer wind shear will be 25 to 40 knots, so there may be some severe storm development. I'll edit this a little bit. I think instability looks best tomorrow, but it's still under 1000 J/kg. We may have a few thunderstorms tomorrow. For Friday and Saturday, models have the best CAPE values in eastern Colorado, so I don't think we will have much coverage of showers and thunderstorms over the Front Range corridor on those days. Got a nice thunderstorm yesterday evening here, picked up about .20" in 40 minutes with a fair amount of lightning. NWS is saying very little chance of convection today due to the strong cap with cooler air mass. It certainly is cool and moist out there...actually pretty foggy here in Boulder this morning. If things can manage to clear up in the next couple hours and we get some warming, though - I would think there could still be a chance for some convection with so much moisture around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 Today was gloomy for a while here, then we had partly/mostly cloudy, with 25mph wind gusts from the east. RH stayed high, compared to most days. Actually Laramie had sustained SE winds of over 30 knots for quite some time. Usually Wyoming would have winds like that from other directions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Do most storms develop in June in CO? Do storms tend to fire closer to Denver after a majority of the snow melts in the Rockies? It kind of seems that way since I've been in Denver. June and July are the biggest t-storm months, with June the biggest severe month (hail is the biggest issue for locations close to the urban corridor). T-storms are a little more frequent during the monsoon season, typically July to early August, where they often develop over the Front Range then drift east. Lack of snow helps the convection a bit, but other factors (primarily mid-upper level moisture) generate the juice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 I think this past week has had the highest ratio of clouds to rain I have ever seen. Though I have not spent much time in California. Getting DRY again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 We got about 0.55" of rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 0.44" here yesterday. Wettest day of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Mostly to bump the thread up so it doesn't get buried by cyclonic (and anticyclonic!) events to our southeast, but we got about 0.3" of rain the past 24 hours, more than in the past almost 4 weeks. Great to feel and good timing for the fire in Evergreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 I was riding in the passenger seat of a car going to Denver yesterday, and I had my camera with me. I wasn't doing storm chasing. I saw a double rainbow to the east, but I could get my camera over to that side of the car to get that picture. Here are my photos of a shower (small cumulonimbus) cloud near Denver. I thought the cloud edges were very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluggerWx Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Here is a picture from Stapleton from Tuesday evening... This storm was really strengthening as it moved out of Castle Rock, and here's what it looked like on the far N/NE side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluggerWx Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 And another Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Looks like a nice cell popping near Kiowa, CO with some rotation headed SE. Fortunately not much of anything in its path except ranches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 GFS MOS says 102 for Fort Collins airport. I suppose we will get to 97-102 for this area tomorrow. It has been one year exactly since the High Park Fire started. Thankfully, we are not in such a drought now. It looks like some larger dust storms are starting to hit southeast Colorado. I read this article and I was a bit confused as to which day this happened (dust storm) http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23420681/massive-dust-storms-hit-southeast-colorado-evoking-dirty Denver/Boulder discussion from today OTHERWISE LOOKING FOR WARM TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHTAND HOT TEMPERATURES TOMORROW. COULD SEE RECORDS TIED AND EVENBROKEN TOMORROW. RECORD HIGH AT DENVER FOR THE DATE IS 97. THEFORECAST IS FOR 97. COULD SEE THE CENTURY MARK AT SEVERAL LOCALESON THE PLAINS AS WELL.LONG TERM... DOWNSLOPE WINDS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE WILL NEGATE ANYCOOLING AND EXPECT HIGHS AT LEAST IN THE MID 90S. THE EASTERN PLAINSWILL BE WARMER ON TUESDAY WITH HIGHS GETTING CLOSE TO 100 DEGREES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I read that article too and was similarly confused. Friday 5/24, the day they seemed to cite, was a windy day at the Lamar ASOS (average 22.8 mph with a peak gust of 49) but didn't seem as bad from NWS records as teh article indicated. Really terrible though that the minor (and now seemingly temporary) relief we have had north of the Palmer Divide didn't touch SE Colorado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 I saw smoke from a forest fire. My best info says that this is from the Big Meadows Fire (RMNP), a long way from our foothills area. The color of this seemed a little too weird to be a cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Looks like 3, possibly 4 fires in the state right now. RMNP, Royal Gorge and Black Forest. I was watching the 9news feed of their copter flying down to Black Forest when they may have spotted another one west of Castle Rock in the foothills. 2 feeds i'm watching: http://kdvr.com/on-air/live-streaming/ http://www.9news.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Black Forest Fire; news copter reporting about 10 houses up, Tanker coming in from Albuquerque: RNMP Fire, cam probably from CU Boulder: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 I am smelling some of the smoke from RMNP(Big Meadows) obviously the winds have taken this plume 40+ miles and the smell has been here in Fort Collins for 30 minutes to an hour. The sunshine looks orange, and the sun is shining brightly through the smoke plume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 There were a few 100+ F dewpoint/temp spreads across eastern CO today (RH 2-3%!), and DEN had its earliest 100 degree temp on record (old record 6/14/2006). Dang. The apocalypse is upon us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Got this earlier tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 There were a few 100+ F dewpoint/temp spreads across eastern CO today (RH 2-3%!), and DEN had its earliest 100 degree temp on record (old record 6/14/2006). Dang. The apocalypse is upon us. Nice pic, famartin Yeah, I saw the temp/dew point spreads that were insane. I saw 101 degrees on my car thermometer. We had some nice coolish early June days, then it's like we got time-warped to last summer, with fires and 100 degree temperatures, all in just 2 days. A 100-acre forest fire is not an apocalypse. We need to get re-time-warped into our 80 degree June. And then get some rain on these fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CO SciFan Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 It looks like a solid chance for strong winds and maybe some dry t-storms with powerful outflow for the burn area today per NWS. Any thoughts from the mets on how things will develop around the Black Forest Fire today? Already the most destructive CO wildfire with 360+ homes gone, I fear with the addition of wind it could get much worse this afternoon again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Looks like we could have some severe storms in the Front Range area today. I think today could be a storm-chase day around here, with reasonable storm motions and decent shear. The radar so far has shown that the area is mainly capped with high-based cumulus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 I think tomorrow there could be a medium coverage for severe weather for northeast Colorado. Maybe even some hailstorms near Denver. The GFS shows some pretty big lapse rates with dew points around 50, CAPE of 1500-2000 J/kg and 0-6km shear may be up to around 50 knots for a few areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 I got nickel-sized hail (0.9"). I thought the convection was over for the night! Watching lightning right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 Pics from yesterday. The hail was at 10:30PM. The flowers are on a prickly pear cactus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CO SciFan Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 TOR-warned cell in Denver and Adams County basically east of Aurora. This has potential to effect DIA. Screen cap from @CodyCrouch on Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 +FC... Uh yeah!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettjrob Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Ouch. Likely a direct hit on the KDEN premises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 That thing was ridiculously close to the radar. ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT FORNORTHEASTERN DENVER AND WESTERN ADAMS COUNTIES...AT 224 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EASTERN DENVERINTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...OR 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENVER...MOVINGNORTH AT 5 MPH.HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.SOURCE...RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO.IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...NORTHEASTERN AURORA...DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND D.I.A.TERMINAL AND CONCOURSES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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