Tuesday, June 22, 2010

22 June 2010 Chase - Southern PA and Northern MD

Jason Foster and I just got back from chasing... was about 4-5 mi south of the reported tornado in SE PA. We didn't see the rotation or tornado (we were on I-76), but we did see the nice wall cloud that spawned it. Note that the TOR producer was not actually the cell that got TOR warned later on :P Pics and screen grabs coming soon.

Things we experienced today:
- Beautiful wall cloud.
- Two double rainbows, one of which was literally right at the ground.
- Dime sized and maybe a couple nickel sized hail (as we "core punched" the second cell that formed to our south).
- Estimated 60-65 mph wind gusts (as we were standing outside filming the tornadic storm).
- A large tree down in Cecil County, MD blocking a road just south of Rt. 1 (which we reported).
- Vivid CG lightning from three different cells.

We drove through an area with a pretty bad road network, especially during "rush hour," so we weren't able to catch up to the TOR warned southern cell after an hour of pursuit. All in all, we did see a lot of interesting things, got on the only chaseable tornadic cell of the day (so far), so it turned out to be a pretty good chase day.

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