{"id":41,"date":"2017-05-26T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/rivors\/?p=41"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:26:13","slug":"52617-southeast-coloradosouthwest-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/rivors\/2017\/05\/52617-southeast-coloradosouthwest-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/26\/17 \u2013 Southeast Colorado\/Southwest Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NOXP radar deployed in Colorado during RiVorS. (Photo by Ted Mansell\/NSSL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes, the safest play when conducting severe storms field work just doesn\u2019t work out. Day two of our three-day deployment presented us with two options: drift west from our hotel in Hays, Kansas, for a possible repeat of yesterday\u2019s intense storms \u2014 likely including a supercell or two \u2014 across northeast Colorado and northwest Kansas, leaving us with a long drive south for a mission in the highly-volatile airmass over Oklahoma; or, drop south to intercept potential storms coming off the mountains of southern Colorado \u2014 a much riskier play that would put ourselves in a better location for the next day.<\/p>\n

Facing the prospect of possible early-day intense convection far south the next day, we made the difficult decision to forego the north option. We headed south into Lamar, Colorado, where we sat and waited for storms to develop. And we waited\u2026and waited\u2026and waited. We launched a few sondes with not much encouraging data. We were antsy enough to make a couple passes through a shower near Las Animas, but the shower met its demise at the hands of dry air fairly quickly.<\/p>\n

It soon became clear the models just didn\u2019t have it right this time. About 90 minutes before sunset, we knew it was time to fold and headed down to Woodward, Oklahoma, for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, the safest play when conducting severe storms field work just doesn\u2019t work out. Day two of our three-day deployment presented us with two options: drift west from our hotel… <\/p>\n

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