We started our day in Amarillo, TX. At breakfast, we were trying to decide between two regions that had somewhat promising weather forecasts: southeastern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Colorado was closer to us, and we ultimately made the decision to head that way. We stopped at a local park in Lamar, Colorado and waited for the storms to start firing, but after about an hour and a half, we saw little development and decided to head south to Springfield, Colorado where at least a few modest storms were heading east. Here, we observed non-severe, multicellular clusters which had little organization and virtually no rotation. It was interesting to see the importance of wind shear; without it, storms are unable to support sustained updrafts. Once it started to get dark, we decided to spend the night in Garden City, Kansas to put us in better position the next day's storms.
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| Two Buttes mountain formation in SE Colorado. |
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| Tossing the frisbee at Willow Creek Park in Lamar, CO. | | | | |
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| Clouds just in Springfield, CO. |
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