A chase washes away the Monday blahs...

Although the day started with the NWS not too excited about storms in our area, and even though the SPC didn't have us under a slight risk for severe weather, Mother Nature improvised in the form of a lee trough that focused the existing instability and fired off what proved to be a severe thunderstorm that plowed right through the Fredericksburg region.
My first chase attempt was aimed at a couple of mediocre cells that went up near Culpeper and aimed themselves at the Stafford airport, so I obligingly set up shop at the latter location and watched this approach at about 5:30 pm:
Although it looks menacing - and headed straight for me - it fell apart as I watched so I motored home to eat dinner. As I did so, however, I discovered a trailing cell that began to look very interesting so I gulped down dinner and headed back out.
I wound up in eastern King George county as the now severe thunderstorm crawled through the region (black "X" marks my location):
I videoed the storm and recorded a small bit of hail as the aft end of the hail shaft (purple areas in the above radar view) scooted just to my south, but the best was yet to come as I waited for the whole thing to pass by and get some structure shots:

All in all it was cool local chase, possibly a warm up for Thursday!