Today Hunter decided to join me on the chase which I was excited for.  The parameters looked good (especially for this spring which has been dull at best) and so I targeted Akron.  On the way out we saw a great storm around Bennett, which was on the way, so we decided to chase it; but it died a miserable death as it got into the colder boundary left by two supercells that went through at about 11:00am and corrupted all of central Colorado air mass…

So we kept heading up north and the storm in Cheyenne was sneaking down to the south.  We caught up to it from the SE and it looked good.  Little did we know that it put down about a foot of hail NW of Brush; we caught the storm as it was over Brush and were in good position so we just sat back and watched the show.

Hunter saw his first rotating wall cloud, albeit slowly (I didn’t feel I could call it in) but the storm had been Tornado Warned for a while so we had hope.  Then, in the span of 20 minutes, the storm died a miserable death!  ???  It was about 7pm and the show was over?  Weird.  Two days in a row that at 7pm there is not another chase option.  We went to Brush, got dinner, and headed home.

Highlights were Hunter’s first rotating wall cloud, some nice wall cloud structure, and some scenery of old barns and homes in the middle of nowhere.  And the company of Hunter on the chase!