Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The storm killer

At least that's what I feel like my nickname should be after the last two days of chasing. Today I even waited until a complex of cells looked decent on radar and close enough to go after:
The convective complex sprawled from Louisa county into western Spotsylvania, and the southwestern edge was continuing to punch up new cells, so I headed south to the Thornburg area where I spied a nice rain-free base at the southern end. Continuing south to a sports facility in Caroline county I stopped to watch the entire complex begin to fall apart:

The frustrating part was that the cell to my south was pounding Ashland at this time and sounding very active but I was out of position and didn't want to travel any further south and east. Within 15 minutes after this picture was taken there was literally nothing left but blue sky so I moseyed back toward home. Can't call this a B-U-S-T, but it certainly wasn't satisfying.

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