Some form of this resilient convective plume had been around for many hours, though it crawled only a few tens of miles in its entire lifespan. It began in mid-afternoon as the “Cheyenne Wells Antisupercell” and outlived a line of “landspout“-producing storms to its south. Its rear-flank core treated us to a nice double rainbow north of Kit Carson. Then we found a motel and restaurant in town, ate a leisurely dinner, checked in, unloaded luggage, looked at some forecast data for the next day’s potential, then headed east to photograph the storm’s last gasps shortly before sunset. It was an unconventional, yet successful, storm-observing sequence!
5 ENE Kit Carson CO (19 Jun 8) Looking ENE
38.7857, -102.6948