No longer 0 for October!!!!

The incredible storm system that created weather warnings over more than half of the 50 states created its own local havoc in the Fredericksburg area today.  Even as I write this another tornado warning is underway for King George County, but it's too dark for me to feel comfortable chasing as there is little or no lightning to illuminate features. 
I started out the day driving through pouring rain to southern Maryland for work, eventually leaving there mid-afternoon and witnessing convective towers all around me.  I spied a ragged wall cloud under a cell near the Chesapeake Bay, but I was too interested in getting back into familiar chase territory to stick around.  Crossing into Virginia I checked radar at a local WiFi spot and saw that another convective line was moving northeast toward Fredericksburg, so I motored toward a favored viewing spot off Route 3 a few miles east of town and settled in to watch a cell pass by just south of the Rappahannock.  About 20 minutes later I noticed another storm moving into the Rappahannock river valley from the southwest so I moved a couple miles further west to get a better look and was rewarded with a view of a wall cloud.  I called in a spotter report to NWS Sterling at 5:00 pm and then saw this development a couple minutes later:

Zooming into the area near the isolated rain shaft under the wall cloud I verified another 2010 funnel sighting:

Never extending further than this - and thus no tornado - the wall cloud began to morph into yet another configuration that was fascinating to watch:

As this drew nearer to my position the rains began in earnest so I retreated a couple miles further east to keep watch, but I never saw any other funnels.  Lightning was a very infrequent occurrence, indicating that these updrafts were fairly shallow but that the low level shear was significant.   Great chase!!!  Now it's off to view and edit the video...