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Today was the third day in a row that the Colorado Front Range had a tornado watch issued.  I left a little late due to a work meeting (who schedules meetings in the afternoons during storm season, how rude! 🙂 ) and headed up to follow the second cell that was tornado warned near Parker.  Caught some great storm structure and had a fun time with this storm as it went in and out of tornado warned status.  Once again, more Palmer Divide magic!

double tail clouds
Double tail clouds!
Tail Cloud
Cell east of Byers as it got going again. Awesome watching the tail clouds form and pass overhead!
Tornado warned at this time.
Tornado warned at this time.
outflow structure from the storm
This was cool as the outflow was getting sucked up into the cloud.

On the way home I caught the cells that were forming off of the Rampart Range west of Castle Rock to get some lightning shots.  Unfortunately it was raining anywhere near the storm, so I shot some distant photos near Castlewood Canyon, still caught some great lightning.  It produces much better photos closer to the strikes, however; but there are still months of storms to catch great lightning shots.

Possible shear funnel
This appears to be a small shear funnel on the right side of this storm looking north from Castle Rock
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery
Lightning over the Pinery

Been a fun June chasing so far!  Look forward to more days this spring!