I started out going after a well developed discrete cell heading towards Morris. Just as I was getting on 55 it fell apart. I had Kane Co ARES plugged into the scanner and heard Ben advise his location to the net so I figured I would head up there.
We watched as the system moved our way. The velocity showed some broad rotation but really nothing significant. The system turned more linear as it approached. Did catch a few good pic of a couple of cells building just to our west. At one point we had a ring of mammatus around us so we were directly under the anvil!
We were able to watch a couple of shelf clouds build up. This was interesting to me since I had not seen the genesis of a shelf cloud before! There were no obvious outflow boundaries from this system. Just one great mass of nothing but disorganized storms. Oh how I wished for some discrete cells but this would not happen.
Once the gust front moved thru the winds picked up. I believe we measured around 40mph at our location but there were several reports of 60 mph + to the east of us.
ARES net called our attention to some tighter rotation just to the north of us and we moved off to investigate. I was marked with some nice white scud in a broad ring but really no significant features. After this we broke off and bugged out since there was very little organization to the west.
All in all a bit of a bust but at least we tasted some action! Thanks Ben and Mike for letting me join in. I really do need to get my ticket and a rig so I can join the net!
We watched as the system moved our way. The velocity showed some broad rotation but really nothing significant. The system turned more linear as it approached. Did catch a few good pic of a couple of cells building just to our west. At one point we had a ring of mammatus around us so we were directly under the anvil!
We were able to watch a couple of shelf clouds build up. This was interesting to me since I had not seen the genesis of a shelf cloud before! There were no obvious outflow boundaries from this system. Just one great mass of nothing but disorganized storms. Oh how I wished for some discrete cells but this would not happen.
Once the gust front moved thru the winds picked up. I believe we measured around 40mph at our location but there were several reports of 60 mph + to the east of us.
ARES net called our attention to some tighter rotation just to the north of us and we moved off to investigate. I was marked with some nice white scud in a broad ring but really no significant features. After this we broke off and bugged out since there was very little organization to the west.
All in all a bit of a bust but at least we tasted some action! Thanks Ben and Mike for letting me join in. I really do need to get my ticket and a rig so I can join the net!
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