John Farley
Supporter
I chased in southern Illinois today - a hail chase, as it turns out. Got caught in 1.25 inch hail at 1:40 p.m. where I-64 crosses the Kaskaskia River punching through a storm that did not look all that impressive, but turned out to have a lot of hail - stopped traffic for 5-10 minutes. Playing catch-up, did not get the best view of the next storm but did catch a brief wall cloud looking southeast toward a storm southwest of Mt. Vernon. This storm was a VERY prolific hailer; for the last 10 miles into Mt. Vernon there was hail left on the ground - a lot in some places. Later, photographed a decent storm looking across Rend Lake from the rest stop north of Benton. Although they were prolific hailers, the storms seemed rather high-based, almost elevated, so nothing came close to producing any tornadoes - despite the fact that some of the storms were supercells, PAH issued not one TOR warning, at least through 8 p.m. this evening.
Will post link to full chase report when I get time to get it on my Web site.
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Hail on ground just west of Mt. Vernon
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Looking across Rend lake at the last in the series of storms I observed
EDIT 4-12-06: I have now posted my full chase report on my Web site at:
http://www.siue.edu/~jfarley/chase40706.htm
It includes additional pictures, as well as the text of warnings and LSRs related to the storms I observed.
Will post link to full chase report when I get time to get it on my Web site.
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Hail on ground just west of Mt. Vernon
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Looking across Rend lake at the last in the series of storms I observed
EDIT 4-12-06: I have now posted my full chase report on my Web site at:
http://www.siue.edu/~jfarley/chase40706.htm
It includes additional pictures, as well as the text of warnings and LSRs related to the storms I observed.