Too much instability. Not enough cap. Too much lift. Not westerly enough winds at midlevels.
Man, getting these severe thunderstorm thingies, especially the picturesque rotating kind, is a difficult and delicate balance to achieve.
We didn't get it today. Today we got a storm forming south of the boundary (good), near the better midlevel winds (very good), showing a wall cloudy-type inflow thing (very very good), and then gusting out an outflow about as quickly as we could drive.
The red dust being kicked up in the outflow was pretty awesome, though.
Pictures are forthcoming this evening; I just have to put them on my laptop.
Tomorrow I think we're going to have an abbreviated chase day, maybe in SE CO, then off to probably NE for Wednesday, and possibly ND, possibly IA for Thursday.
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