Wray, Colorado tornado: May 7, 2016 — Bryce Kintigh

Published on May 7, 2016

Several minutes after the first tornado near Wray, Colorado dissipated, another storm moved near an east/west oriented boundary that dissected the city of Wray. As the storm approached the boundary, it began to spin, feeding off the extra low-level shear from the boundary.

The beginning of the Wray, Colorado tornado.

The tornado quickly turned into a prolific, dusty tornado as it moved north from Wray.

The tornado as it moves northeast from Wray, Colorado.

The following are the YouTube video and timelapse shots from the chase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipioDwoW2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiQv3KdR6k

Timelapse of the Wray, Colorado tornado.

Bryce Kintigh

Bryce has been chasing storms since 2003. Growing up on a farm in North Central Kansas, weather has always played a big role in his life. In 2018, Bryce finished his Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. His favorite weather memory would have to be seeing a large wedge tornado with a satellite tornado in 2007. When Bryce isn’t on the road chasing storms, he enjoys spending time with friends, cheering on the Kansas State Wildcats, and traveling. He hopes to visit every National Weather Service radar site in the nation, visiting over 135 thus far. Bryce is often heard on KAKE-TV, tracking storms all across Kansas and the Midwest.

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