As night fell across the Great Plains of eastern Colorado, what had been a fairly amorphous, high-based band of thunderstorms latched onto a moist low level jet and organized quickly. Lightning filaments began flying every which way under the trailing rain and anvil canopy of the thunderstorm cluster, putting forth a show of “crawler” lightning that rivaled that of many larger, better-organized convective complexes I’ve seen.
3 ESE Ft. Morgan CO (11 Jun 6) Looking ESE
40.2487, -103.735Colorado Crawlers
As night fell across the Great Plains of eastern Colorado, what had been a fairly amorphous, high-based band of thunderstorms latched onto a moist low level jet and organized quickly. Lightning filaments began flying every which way under the trailing rain and anvil canopy of the thunderstorm cluster, putting forth a show of “crawler” lightning that rivaled that of many larger, better-organized convective complexes I’ve seen.
3 ESE Ft. Morgan CO (11 Jun 6) Looking ESE
40.2487, -103.735