12WoodrowCO7June2001

Date: 7 June 2001

Location: Woodrow, CO

Chase Partner - Lou Rohrbacher

After departing Denver we headed E on I-70 and then headed toward Last Chance on U.S. 36. When we got to Last Chance we hung out at the Dairy King for about an hour and watched a few updrafts go up all around us. Nothing looked very promising and what reports we were getting seemed to point that we were too far East for activity at the time. After starting back toward Byers there were some strong updrafts that looked promising N of us up Hwy 71. Sure enough NWS Boulder was calling for spotters up near Akron for a rapidly developing storm. We headed up for intercept and while enroute a tornado warning was issued for the storm we were heading toward. After getting to a location South of Brush we took up position W of some weak rotation. The storm itself was West of Akron and seemed to be back building to the south. We watched the rotation for some time, but nothing developed. While observing the rotation a really nice wall cloud formed on another storm WNW of us near Brush. It held together for about 10 minutes then dissipated. We now began to run into numerous chasers along the back roads of Eastern Colorado keeping up with this storm. The storm grew to over 75Dbz and had a very broad rotation. It eventually put down a couple of weak tornadoes........one which seemed multivortex in nature, however it just could not get its act together and eventually died out. NWS Boulder also warned that grapefruit size hail was being held aloft and we may have witnessed one of the stupidest things I think I may ever see as a storm chaser. I think the pics will speak for themselves.

After this storm had died out, we then proceeded to a really photogenic LP storm NW of Ft Morgan.

Wall Cloud near Brush, CO

Twin tubes of a weak multivortex tornado near Woodrow, CO

I plead the 5th on my thoughts about what this guy is doing

LP storm NW of Fort Morgan later that evening