Mike Hollingshead
Not sure what was more crazy the storm or ST managing to never have a forecast thread or a now thread for the day lol. It just seemed impossible to get a good day and a good storm with neither thread happening on ST. I mean seriously, pretty hard to remember such a day. Pretty impressive parameters up there yesterday too. Siggy tor was 7 last I saw before the storm. Not a complaint either(obviously), just simply an observation of something that was different.
Will just copy from my site. It will be a while before any real account is done. Pictures just won't tell the tale. A whole lot more variations of this thing were caught on video. Thing was a supercell from north of Kadoka through at least southeast of Kimball. I sure was not thinking using I90 the whole time would work out as well as it was. The thing even curled out later and turned ene to east, made me wish I'd kept going east rather than letting it get me.
Chased this thing from birth out nw of Murdo SD through Kimball SD, often with Chris Allington and Evan Ludes. One of the most beasty storms I've chased. Problem was it was moving so fast. It was doing crazy things with new updraft bases forming ahead of the base of this one. Those would get a wicked inflow cloud attached to them, then just all suck into the one behind it and get crazy structure. At one point the one had a crazy curling mid-level inflow band...but the thing was purely convective. Just an "oh my god" deal.
Near Vivian it got a ground blasting rotating on the ground deal. It looked like a simply crazy tornado was forming as that thing blasted the Earth. Looks like a tornado report came of that. The lightning was just silly, especially right here at Chamberlain in the above. And just crazy long smoothed bands going into the thing. Chris was saying softballs were bouncing over their car back there in the vault just before this, as they drove down some gravel road trying to get back to I90. I'm dying for massive hail, don't care how scary or bad it gets. Since he said it was in the vault I thought I could get some and still escape east for structure. Sure enough I soon got hail out here. I sat and it never got big and turned to rain.
I go to flee here and don't see the entrance onto I90 here was a loop deal. I turn back around wondering how you get back on I90 as the core comes into Chamberlain. Extreme rain! Holy crap was this crazy. I jump on I90 to zero traffic going east and wind blown rain rocketing east. I'm going east at about 60 and can't see a thing, but it was crazy, the winds had to have been going east 60mph perfectly with me. It was like super duper saturating rain fall rates were happening but nothing coming down here, just blowing sideways at the same speed as I was moving. It just doesn't make much of any sound on your car like this and it's just a strange sensation, as it is like a crazy amout of dense rain floating east envloping you in a cloud.
After I cleared the rain and raced east to get ahead more, again there was NO traffic going east on I90 with me. For a long ways. I thought this seems like an episode of twilight zone. I let it overtake me se of Kimbal, partly because it looked like a line was forming on radar around it, partly I needed gas, and partly I thought I might be able to take max hail sizes still before it lines out. Only got about quarters there trying to position myself where it should be the worst just n of the base a bit. I then chased mammatus through the evening.
Anyway, I already know I couldn't get stills of all the best stuff but got it all on video. Crazy storm. It's going to be a "blast" trying to whittle this into the already jammed backed and whittled down DVD. The coloring at times on this thing was ridiculous too.
I just about didn't stop at Mitchell but am glad I did. Late twilight on the mammatus made them crazy above this field lit some by lights. I had a clear view of them at sunset but as I drove east more I kept getting the low cloud block out crap. Each time I'd get a gap they'd look nuts above me. I'd go to stop at the next exit and I'd hit clouds again. I thought I'd get clouds again at Mitchell but tried anyway. Took like 7 seconds or so at 800-1250 ISO to get these to show up, at F4.
Will just copy from my site. It will be a while before any real account is done. Pictures just won't tell the tale. A whole lot more variations of this thing were caught on video. Thing was a supercell from north of Kadoka through at least southeast of Kimball. I sure was not thinking using I90 the whole time would work out as well as it was. The thing even curled out later and turned ene to east, made me wish I'd kept going east rather than letting it get me.
Chased this thing from birth out nw of Murdo SD through Kimball SD, often with Chris Allington and Evan Ludes. One of the most beasty storms I've chased. Problem was it was moving so fast. It was doing crazy things with new updraft bases forming ahead of the base of this one. Those would get a wicked inflow cloud attached to them, then just all suck into the one behind it and get crazy structure. At one point the one had a crazy curling mid-level inflow band...but the thing was purely convective. Just an "oh my god" deal.
Near Vivian it got a ground blasting rotating on the ground deal. It looked like a simply crazy tornado was forming as that thing blasted the Earth. Looks like a tornado report came of that. The lightning was just silly, especially right here at Chamberlain in the above. And just crazy long smoothed bands going into the thing. Chris was saying softballs were bouncing over their car back there in the vault just before this, as they drove down some gravel road trying to get back to I90. I'm dying for massive hail, don't care how scary or bad it gets. Since he said it was in the vault I thought I could get some and still escape east for structure. Sure enough I soon got hail out here. I sat and it never got big and turned to rain.
I go to flee here and don't see the entrance onto I90 here was a loop deal. I turn back around wondering how you get back on I90 as the core comes into Chamberlain. Extreme rain! Holy crap was this crazy. I jump on I90 to zero traffic going east and wind blown rain rocketing east. I'm going east at about 60 and can't see a thing, but it was crazy, the winds had to have been going east 60mph perfectly with me. It was like super duper saturating rain fall rates were happening but nothing coming down here, just blowing sideways at the same speed as I was moving. It just doesn't make much of any sound on your car like this and it's just a strange sensation, as it is like a crazy amout of dense rain floating east envloping you in a cloud.
After I cleared the rain and raced east to get ahead more, again there was NO traffic going east on I90 with me. For a long ways. I thought this seems like an episode of twilight zone. I let it overtake me se of Kimbal, partly because it looked like a line was forming on radar around it, partly I needed gas, and partly I thought I might be able to take max hail sizes still before it lines out. Only got about quarters there trying to position myself where it should be the worst just n of the base a bit. I then chased mammatus through the evening.
Anyway, I already know I couldn't get stills of all the best stuff but got it all on video. Crazy storm. It's going to be a "blast" trying to whittle this into the already jammed backed and whittled down DVD. The coloring at times on this thing was ridiculous too.
I just about didn't stop at Mitchell but am glad I did. Late twilight on the mammatus made them crazy above this field lit some by lights. I had a clear view of them at sunset but as I drove east more I kept getting the low cloud block out crap. Each time I'd get a gap they'd look nuts above me. I'd go to stop at the next exit and I'd hit clouds again. I thought I'd get clouds again at Mitchell but tried anyway. Took like 7 seconds or so at 800-1250 ISO to get these to show up, at F4.
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