September 26th kept me in my backyard for some early fall severe weather action. Storms formed along the DCVZ and intensified as they moved east. As often occurs, a wind shift (DCVZ) resulted in a some decent low level vorticity just northwest of our house. Throw in a storm merger and air was spinning nicely! A mature landspotu for south of Watkins and persisted for about 10 minutes. Later another brief funnel formed almost over our house. Hail to pingpong ball sized fell as well as intense lightning. As storms moved east, they congealed into a bowing line a produced wind gusts near 70 mph towards Byers. A nice unexpected surprise and I only had to drive 3 miles!
September 19, 2026 Eastern Colorado Supercells
September 19th featured an east/west outflow boundary in eastern Colorado with upslope flow into the Palmer Divide. By mid afternoon, higher based storms for over the Palmer and drifted eastward along the boundary intercepting deeper moisture. A couple of supercells formed, but constant mergers disrupted their intensity. One such storm south of Genoa, CO spun pretty hard and had an extremely intense wet microburst with winds over 80 mph! Those rocked the van as I quickly positioned to face the brunt with the front end of the vehicle. Golfball hail and those high winds could certainly blow out windows! Structure of the storm was pretty nice as a huge blob of RFD wrapped around the meso. I was surprised there wasn’t a tornado warning issued! Enjoy the pics!
