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I met up with Randy Chamberlain somewhere south of York and we watched storm after storm get the bottom ripped out from under it(or so it looked via such strong low level winds under such weak upper flow). Late in the chase day we got this real storm sw of York. It had a nice rain-free base and a lovely green tinge to the vault. |
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We only got to watch it for 5-10 minutes before I noticed tail end charlie getting its act together to our south via xm. So I decided we should leave this storm and get on the south one. A few minutes later this one became tornado warned, but that was ok... |
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The southern nasty HP hailer. South surface winds were gusting over 40mph for the duration of this storm as it just sat in one spot and back-built. Notice the moisture flowing into the green core. We get some small hail stones falling on us and move south. While doing so the hail picks up to quarter sized. |
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Looking northwest after moving south a few times. You could see an rfd cut trying to get going and spin the portion to its east, but the far east area of that would still be in part of the line of this HP mess. This rotates fairly nice for us for a good bit, but couldn't get it done. There was even a lowered "nub" right in the center of it. Small hail starts falling on us right about now. |
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The coloring at dusk got very orange due to all the wind blown dirt. |
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I tried to stay towards the west side as much as I could because of the backbuilding there. It just sucks they could never cut themselves off and away from the linear mess to their east. They'd cut and be screwed over and over by the area to the east. |
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I head for home shortly after this pic shot after sunset. I had two options, head east ahead of it and then up into some precip later or go right into this thing producing baseball hail just minutes early in the town north of us. I could see on xm if I plowed through I'd have a quicker and drier drive home on I-80. I was also dying to punch the hail core for some reason....soooooooo. North I went. Hail I found. I couldn't see them because of the dark and fog they were creating but the sound was the loudest I've heard yet. I could hear a few of them on the glass that sounded like they were about breaking it. A couple you could feel the quick air compression from the glass pushing in. Those who've been in big hail know what that feels like. Nothing big, but you can defintely feel the change when they hit. The loud ones on the metal top gave a more obvious feeling through my hat. They also gave a strange ride to the paved road. It now felt like I was on a big rock road. I would imagine the largest ones were just under baseball with likely a couple baseballs here and there out there. |
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Yay, one broke my windsheild. At least this happened in the far upper left corner and not in view so it can stay there for as long as I want. |
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As is ALWAYS the case after chases I get home in rain from hell. I can drive the whole way in no rain and the second I enter town it is pouring, just so that getting stuff inside is a pain in the butt. 3 miles out of town and the core was not there yet. We got to Blair at the same time. Me from the south, it from the west. I could have beat it I think, but again I wanted to drive in hail so I was going slow on the higway north watching the big shelf with it to the west. The street outside my apt(highway 75) loves to flood. One car hit this at about 40mph. You could hear his exhaust go "grrrbbbllurrplllleeee"...lol. He didn't make it through. |
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This van I think went through it 4 times going back and forth. Kids...... Instead of waving for people to slow down I recorded them from behind a tree....kids.....lol. It's not like a person with their eyes open paying attention would miss this area. |
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Stupid auto-focus on my cam. You get the idea though. I guess some spotter was watching this storm earlier and had his windshield break sending a piece of glass into his eye. He went to the emergency room, only to go back out and spot when he was out! |
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