6/3/2015 - COD Day 6 - Hartville, WY Supercell

On Wednesday, the 3rd, the forecast was for a heightened potential for supercells and tornadoes along the Front Range in CO/WY.  In the end, the day left a lot to be desired. We initially targeted Colorado, but soon made the decision to shoot north and west to Wyoming.  We joined up with Victor to launch a weather balloon near Wheatland and, thereafter, latched onto a storm north of Fort Laramie in east-central Wyoming.  We had a nice perch, watching the storm evolve and intensify. However, the storm really never got that look and we decided to call it a day as it shifted into the rural area north of Lake Guernsey.  Of course, as we headed to Fort Laramie, the storm intensified just a bit, pulling us north and west through the beautiful (hilly) landscape near the tiny town of Hartville, WY.  We cleared the hills, arriving at a spot with a wonderful perspective of the storm at twilight. With decaying light, lack of roads, and storm merger occurring, we finally called it a night and made the long drive to Ogallala, NE.

Quick lapse of the scenes.