What an awesome day to say the least. Met up with Duane and Jon at my house and Headed to Wilmar to meet up with Preston and Alex. We got out to Wilmar and were at a little hotel using their wifi watching radar and a developing super cell that was to the north east. After making some food from the cooler in the trunk we decided to hit the road and head after this cell. We eventually stopped just south west of Paynesville to view this monster and all I am able to say is WOW! The structure on this thing was just amazing, the color on the hail core was a color I have never seen in a storm in my life, there were reports of baseball/softball size hail. It was turquoise/blue, words are just unable to describe what we saw, Good thing I was able to snap photos. After we chased that storm for quite awhile (it started to get too close to the cities, and chasing storms near populated areas like that is just a bad idea) we decided to head north of St. cloud to go after another storm. This storm had a monster of a Shelf cloud and very heavy winds. We measured a gust of 50mph which is fairly decent. Where other locations from the same storm reported 70+ mph winds. Storm chasing and hanging out with buddies. Does it get any better than that? I don't think so.
It was great to see Jon and Duane again, And was awesome to meet Alex and Preston finally. I hope to go chasing with this group of goons again sometime soon. Enjoy the pics!
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