F5Chaser

Too lazy to type up a new report, copy/paste from ST:
I hung out north of Plankinton, SD keeping an eye on echo tops on the ABR and FSD radar completely ignoring Rapid City. Finally decided to get west. Met up with the storm west of Reliance. Strong inflow, lots of CG but was too far away to really see the base (I really wanted to keep a good distance from the core after those reports came in). Tornado warning came out saying the storm was moving at 50 mph (how the hell does this happen in July?!?). Wanted to get east of the river before trying to intercept again. Realized I should probably get gas I booked it Kimball and then headed south. Let the storm come to me on a gravel road out there. Got eaten up by the rain/hail (the hail was much smaller by this time). That was pretty much the end of the chase. The road network out there SUCKS, but I guess there's no point in having more roads if no one lives out there. My best four, timelapse will be done sometime tonight. I think I was on the wrong side of the storm for that insane structure.


I can't confirm anything touched down here as there was just enough elevation between me and the storm for me to see the ground, but there sure was a lot of stuff going on in this area:




And on the way home

Timelapse is done. Don't mind the first few seconds of the video. The lens fogged up bringing it from the nice a/c in the car to the humid outside air. Look at that inflow!

Very nice!!

I ended up leaving Minneapolis right at noon on Friday, and got to south of Kennebec, SD just after 6 pm.



About 25 seconds in it almost looks as if there is a tornado on the ground, but it was really hard to tell, could have been a low wall cloud/shelf cloud on the horizon. This led me to stick around to make sure nothing was on the ground, which there wasn't as it approached me. This is also led to me getting stuck in the leading edge of the hail shaft, with only a winding gravel road to the east to get out of it. (Thank you Missouri river valley) The hood of my car got beat up by mostly golf ball size hail, with a few baseball size and possibly larger stones scattered around the ground. I finally made it back to I90 and headed back through Chamberlain and worked back south through there. The storm had amazing structure as it crossed the river and the inflow was incredible out of the E/NE. I'm really surprised with everything this storm had to work with that it couldn't produce a significant tornado.

I continued to head south and east along the river, when a southern storm developed and dropped a couple of weak tornadoes from north of the Bonesteel/Herrick areas, to south of Lucas, SD. I got a couple of quick shots of this from across the river, but I was a ways away, and for whatever reason my camera work was a little shaky on that. Overall it was a beautiful storm, that could have produced the largest hail ever recorded near Vivian. I'm sure most of you heard about that but I don't remember seeing a link to the Aberdeen NWS showing it. So here is the link, sorry if I already missed it in another post.

July 23rd Storm Reports and Pictures of Large Hail