Paul Townsend
This setup seemed recently familiar to me but I couldn't place it. But when I saw the 21Z Great Lakes radar update it looked like October 18, 2007 to me. Because of work issues I couldn't chase into any of the eastern or southern hot spots, but I kept an analytical eye to the conditions near home in eastern WI.
A tornado watch was issued in the early afternoon either just before or during my transit down to Fond du Lac. I observed storms passing me both to the east and west while I was stopped a little west of Fond du Lac. I made a move further south toward a warned cell. I got hit by a hail core enroute. The largest was about the size of a dollar coin. As I headed back north again to flank a nice cell to my west I could see the hail shaft dangling from the sky:
Here is a view of the nice storm to my west that I was after:
In the large version a pendant lowering can be seen. The storm that cored me had a nice rainbow with it as I was passing the wind turbine farm:
As I flew back north toward Fond du Lac I managed to zoom in and take a pic of the backside of the nice little supercell and lowering:
It is tough working the camera controls and driving so I messed up another pic of the lowering that had become a nice funnel. I made it back to Fond du Lac to mooch wifi again and was able to get some more pics of the beautiful supercells that pranced across eastern WI that day:
All in all it was a very fun chase.
A tornado watch was issued in the early afternoon either just before or during my transit down to Fond du Lac. I observed storms passing me both to the east and west while I was stopped a little west of Fond du Lac. I made a move further south toward a warned cell. I got hit by a hail core enroute. The largest was about the size of a dollar coin. As I headed back north again to flank a nice cell to my west I could see the hail shaft dangling from the sky:
Here is a view of the nice storm to my west that I was after:
In the large version a pendant lowering can be seen. The storm that cored me had a nice rainbow with it as I was passing the wind turbine farm:
As I flew back north toward Fond du Lac I managed to zoom in and take a pic of the backside of the nice little supercell and lowering:
It is tough working the camera controls and driving so I messed up another pic of the lowering that had become a nice funnel. I made it back to Fond du Lac to mooch wifi again and was able to get some more pics of the beautiful supercells that pranced across eastern WI that day:
All in all it was a very fun chase.
