Colorado Storms 6/25/14
Wednesday was a travel/chase day as I started the morning in New Mexico and made it into northeastern Colorado by mid-afternoon.
While some storms were firing to my east, I caught something in the distance that was very interesting. There were some weak, intermittent landspouts forming about six miles east of Keenesburg, CO. As I got closer, there was only some dust spinning in a field, so I kept traveling northeast.
Around Sterling, CO, I ran into a severe hailstorm with hail that was at least the size of ping pong balls (1.5 inches in diameter). I stopped and it’s possible that on the north side of town the hail was even larger, but I didn’t want to risk damaging my car.
For anyone who is interested, here’s a look at radar around the time of the landspouts. They appeared to form along some sort of outflow boundary and there was no precipitation associated with them:
