May 30, 2005 Southern Colorado

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Mileage: 820 mi Chasers: Verne Carlson, Tony Laubach Tornadoes: 1 Blasted south to Trinidad, CO where I met Tony, Amos, Chris Collura, Jeff Gammons, and got to meet Jason Persoff MD for the first time. Watched as cells built off the front range and moved south. One cell over Trinidad developed a nice rotating wall cloud. Saw Roger Hill and Tim Samaras drive by. Headed east where Amos got nailed by a deer crossing the road. Headed further east and then south were we witnessed a brief funnel from a dying cell. At that moment the 2 DOW trucks came by heading north and then east. We headed east through Kim, CO where we passed the DOWs and found a spot to park and watch the line of mesos as they came across our area. Saw the Tornado Intercept Vehicle drive by twice. Our large caravan headed west again on 160 where we intercepted the monster of a supercell that was right across the road in front of us. In the dark and rain I missed the brief tornado that touched down just to our north. I did however catch it on my dashboard cam.