A chase without internet is very stressful. I managed to encounter a few entertaining things, but nothing compared to what I could have if I had internet available. I started off chasing the first supercell (tornado warned) that entered Carroll County, GA. The storm was located just across the AL/GA border when I decided to leave home to go about 20m to my west. I had to pick up a friend just down the road to help keep an eye out and take video/pics, while I did the driving. I than stopped at a near-by gas station to feel up, because I was near empty, after that without radar it was hard to tell exact location of the storm and in what direction it was heading, I knew when I left that the storm motion was towards the east and that if I needed to set-up somewhere for a possible tornado/wall cloud that I would have to be in the city of Carrollton. However, at the moment it appeared the storm was quickly approaching from the west, therefore I just positioned at a near-by neighborhood on top of a hill, where I could get a wide view of the storm, from that viewpoint it appeared that the storm was moving due east and that the wall cloud/tornado would be located just off to our WSW and looked to be heading our way, with the good view of the storm we stayed there for awhile, but than is started raining and an update on the weather alert radio said it was heading towards Whitesburg, therefore we were to far to the north, so we turned around and started heading towards Highway 5 that would lead us south into Whitesburg, but it was obvious that the storm was quickly out-running us to the east, therefore we stopped tracking the cell, but as we were ending the chase we encountered a short period of dime size hail on the backside. Below are images of the storm, I didn't manage to get a hail pic, because it was short lived and didn't have the time to get the camera set.
I than got word from a friend on the phone that a massive supercell was headed for Carroll County once again, so I got into position and observed a nice storm structure and a nice lightning storm on Highway 61. I missed the tornado/wall cloud on this storm as well as it was located towards the south, but I didn't really want to be caught in that mess w/ the lose of daylight.
I have video of the lightning show and will post it sometime tomorrow. Overall, I was north of the potential wall cloud/tornado w/ both supercells, due to not having internet.
More images can be found at this link
http://s689.photobucket.com/albums/vv256/convectiveinflow/.
