5/26/2017 - Eastern CO/western KS Supercell

Began the day in Ellis, KS with two targets in mind: 1) I-70/US-36 corridor east of Denver or 2) southeast Colorado.  After sliding west a bit, we decided on the northern play due to consistency in the CAMs.  We made it to Deer Trail as a set of three cells moved near and across the Denver International Airport.  Slowly, the storm got its act together north of Last Chance. Once it took on that supercell look, it turned hard right.  Though it was close a couple of times to producing tornadoes, it seemed to miss the low-level lapse rates and just a hint of juice to give it that low-level jump.  Eventually, the storm became an HP beast as it traversed the east-central Colorado Plains. We followed it to Goodland, KS where we finally let it go in the waning light. Overall, a beautiful storm.
  

   

Time-lapse of scenes.

Map of chase.