Saturday June 11th chase

I have been remiss at posting a chase account from Saturday but herein is a summary.   After perusing models and radar I motored toward Culpeper with the goal of being there by 2:00 pm to get set up ahead of the storms.  This turned out to not be early enough as cells were firing east of the Blue Ridge by that time and were quickly coalescing into a squall line.  The best looking storm was heading eastward near the town of Orange so I jumped south to the Lahore Road / Route 522 intersection and set up shop on a rural route near there, where I recorded this CG on my in-car videocamera:

The other noteworthy features of this cell were heavy rain and strong (~30 kt) outflow so I continued a mile further south to stay ahead of the line and recorded this awesome view of the line's approach:

Turning north on Route 208 I was stopped by road construction on the bridge crossing Lake Anna where I photographed this view of the shelf:

This video shows evidence of the strong outflow via a dust cloud crossing Route 208:

I was going to call off the chase when I reached Route 1 in Thornburg but caught sight of a lowering to the east so I continued eastward across I-95, across to Route 2, and then north to Route 17 in Spotsylvania county.  Still glimpsing the lowering I charged eastward down Route 17 to Port Royal but never did get another good look at the lowering thanks to tree lines and hills.  At that point the cell just to my north was severe-warned and was pounding King George county with hail reported up to 1.75" size but I called off the chase at that point and headed homeward.