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Guest 78novaman

Yep had a good one tonight. It was 84*F and a cold front coming through. We still have some rumbles about but the damage is over. There was a funnel cloud spotted due west of us (I-71 & Webber) and the storm was headed due east toward us at the I-270 & Hamiltion Rd exchange. I feel lucky there wasn't a tornado on our heads, just a bunch of golf sized hail & ~50mph gusts.

 

I've always wanted to go storm chasing, this time it came to me :)

 

Storm is a 'comin! Veiw to the WNW from in front of my apartment:

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/storms_brewing.jpg

 

Rain coming down pretty good, you can see the start of some hail:

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/hail_start.jpg

 

Then it gets DARK and it really starts coming down! I had to close the balcony door because hail was coming into the living room!

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/christmas_in_october_2.jpg

 

Then I ventured outside when it died down about 10 mins later, yes 10 mins of hail!

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/christmas_in_october_0.jpg

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/christmas_in_october_1.jpg

 

Here is a pic of the backside of the storm, that thunderhead was huge!

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/thunderhead.jpg

 

and last but not least, the hail I picked out of the grass about 20 minutes after the storm was over!

http://www.retarp.com/pics/hail/golf_sized_hail.jpg

 

There were tornado sirens going off most of the time, and I had my head out the door listening to hear the train noise of a tornado. I had my scanner on and heard the weather net fellas talking about penny to golf sized hail so I put our truck and car under the parking shelter(my apartment doesn't have garages to rent, the have shelters) -- good thing too considering. My neighbor across the way has dents all over her Saturn ION -so much for dent resistant! Another neighbor had her windshield cracked, but a fellow I was talking to in another building didn't have any damage to his Ford Escape!

 

Anyone else with pics feel free to add to this!

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