A leash in the form of a 5:00pm deadline prevented me from getting too far; unfortunately I accepted that deadline with hopes that storms would wait til evening. I was in Watkins when I accepted, drove back into Denver in time to hear the tornado warnings go up. I fought off traffic successfully (for a change) and made it to E-470 and Quincy where I shot the second of the two landspouts I saw today. The first was while enroute to my photo area and was unable to safely get video (poor contrast plus traffic).
When I got to E-470 and Quincy, I watched a ton of dust kick out from the storm, giving way to a landspout which formed from a small dust bowl on the ground to a hollow funnel to the cloud. I had good visibility of the cloud from my vantage point, but the video’s max zoom killed the good vid segment. In any case, I managed to FINALLY break my DCVZ curse and bag a couple tornadoes, even as I was only watching for 20 minutes. I ran back into Denver to finish my job and call it for the night! SUCCESS!
