Date: 6 June 2010

Location: Sterling, CO - Anton, CO

Chase Partner: Solo

Summary: Started out the day near Fort Morgan on the first day of a string of potential really great chase days in Eastern, CO.   Storms began to fire near Briggsdale and tracked ESE.   I intercepted the storm near New Raymer and tracked it toward Sterling.   It went TOR warned, however it never really got its act together.   I encountered was some nickel sized hail.    More storms began to fire to the south near Brush and Fort Morgan.   I headed south and then back, on some of Colorado's finest back roads, west toward Akron to intercept an HP cell that reportedly put down a tornado to the south of Ft. Morgan.   I continued south on Hwy 63 about half way to Anton.   Another storm went TOR warned and had a brief rotating wall cloud.   I never saw anything that resembled a tornado, but I talked with another chaser that said he saw rotation on the ground.   I rewatched my video numerous times and there is nothing that looks like a tornado, IMO.   I continued south to Anton and then west of town and shot some lightning images.   

Storm near New Raymer, CO.

Hail from the New Raymer storm near Sterling, CO.

New storm firing up near Fort Morgan.

Lightning from the cell that formed near Brush.   This was taken on the east flank south of Akron, CO.

Lightning taken just west of Anton, CO.

Day 1 Thunderstorm and Tornado Outlooks from SPC.

Reports from 6-6-2010.

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