Jody Radzik
EF2
I awoke to a SLGT risk ovaloid positioned over the Central Valley in California. Since this is a rare occurrence, I got in my truck and headed out on I-580 toward Tracy, CA, where convection had set up coming off the Diablo range near Altamont. I punched the core on I-205 where I observed rain rates in excess of 1" per hour. Coming through the other side, I took these photos in Lathrop looking southwest at—what is for central California—an impressive convective complex. At this point I drove back through the core where I observed a few dime-sized hail stones, along with some accumulation of pea-sized hail on the road and rain rates in excess of 1" per hour.
This is pretty much what amounts to mammatus in California.
This is pretty much what amounts to mammatus in California.
