MAY 27, 2023 COLORADO: HIGH BASED FUNNEL AND GREAT SHELF CLOUD
Supercell exploding just southwest of Greeley, Colorado and coming my way.
Storm approaching Greeley with a ragged looking base, looking like it is starting to gust out already with a shelf cloud.
Storm starting to look a little better here as the base becomes better organized with a clear slot developing behind it.
Headed east of Greeley on highway 34 towards Wiggins, Colorado to watch a couple new developing storms that were out on their own with good, clean inflow and better instability.
High based funnel cloud starting to form after a while as the storm was slowly headed towards me.
Funnel cloud on the left trying its best to condense and reach towards the ground. Never really got all that close though.
Another funnel cloud right in the bottom middle of the image as I headed north to try and stay ahead of the intense core. This was looking southwest off highway 89 north of Orchard, Colorado.
Battled getting back ahead of this storm, but managed to do so near Stoneham, Colorado as it was creating a nice shelf cloud.
Beautiful whale’s mouth underneath the shelf as it was about to overtake me. Time to leave!
Gustnado on the leading edge of the shelf cloud. Can see it on the bottom middle of the image.
Fully underneath the whale’s mouth here.
Awesome shelf cloud structure as I got back out ahead of the storm.
Final pano shot from my iPhone as I ended the chase after nearly two weeks of being on the road.
