Wednesday 10th May 2023 - Colorado - Enhanced Risk

We started today from Garden City and SPC went 10% on the Tornado Risk in NE Colorado from a DCVZ Set Up. Moisture had finally returned into the state and High 50s dewpoints with low 70s Temps and decent Vorticity around the NE Moving Low Pressure would set the stage for Tornadic Supercells as Storms moved around the Low. The first storms formed on the Rockies from Orographic Lift and these headed North East into the better moisture. As usual I targeted Bennett firstly to watch the first couple of Supercell which quickly gained Tornado Warnings, we tracked these east towards Last Chance and it was here that our first Landspout Tornado of the day occured from the Western Storm. Like the Wray day from 2016 more storms formed in a North to South Line to our east so it was time to step east with each storm as that would be interacting with the better moisture. The storm directly to our east instantly put down another Landspout this time off to our east. We now had to race North and East along dirt roads to keep up with the developing Supercells that were moving around the Low Pressure. Upon approaching Akron an EF1 Pencil Tornado dropped in front of us which had some great contrast with the black sky to the north. Large hail to Tennis Ball sized was falling around us with this storm as well. Finally we had a proper Tornado day and Colorado was putting on some magic for us. Finally around 8pm storms congealed into an MCS and it was day over with Lightning for the Hotel after our evening meal the order of the day. Day 1 of the ejecting Low had produced the good and we still had 4 more days of this slow moving Low Pressure and Cold Core set ups to come.

Some Pics below