24 May 2015 / Supercells and nighttime tornadoes – Colorado/Kansas

Crazy chase day.  We left Guymon, OK and moved into eastern Colorado where we intercepted our first storm between Lamar and Springfield.  The storm steadily evolved into an impressive supercell as it approached Highway 287.  We were presented with our first problem of the day.  If we stayed on Highway 287, we would stand a chance at seeing a tornado.  But, we didn’t have any escape routes to the east and it would be unlikely that we could get out of the way of very large hail.  We elected to flee northward which cost us the view of a brief, but well developed tornado.

We drove east from Lamar and found another viewing spot just south of Granada, CO.  The storm at this point began to interact with another severe storm, effectively stalling our storm long enough that we were able to observe it for 45 minutes without moving.  It’s possible that another tornado was produced during this time, but it would have been buried in the rain and out of our sight.

As the storms moved eastward, they evolved into more of a line segment near the Kansas/Colorado border.  We moved to the south end of the line and stopped for a bit near Manter, KS.  We jogged eastward and stopped again, first west of Big Bow, and then east of Big Bow.  At both places, we had some dramatic mammatus clouds overhead, and some decent lightning.

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We made a quick drive southeast and stopped just west of Plains when a tornado became visible to our north.  Unfortunately, this was the very end of a larger tornado event and we didn’t even have the time to set up our cameras.

We drove east out of Plains, and into one of the more bizarre events I have ever seen in 34 years of chasing.  Dense fog set in with visibility down to less than 100 feet.  This area of dense fog in the warm sector stayed with us as we moved northwest of Meade to southwest of Ensign.  We got close enough to the edge of the fog to briefly see a very large tornado northwest of Meade, but the fog set in on us again.  Knowing a very large tornado was occurring just a couple of miles away and not having any way to see it was a very strange feeling.

This was the end of a short chase tour and we finished out the drive to Okarche, getting in very early in the morning.