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We had quite the shelf cloud in Raleigh on 6/16:

One more:

Still shots:

yeah I truthfully lucked out to get to this position being it was part of a QLCS. This is the 8x speed version:

The meso that went on to prompt the Raleigh area tornado warning:

From where there was a notch in the line this morning and an area of rotation just outside Wilton, NC (east of Butner):

Yesterday (5/23) in Raleigh:

On that same storm this was the rotating wall cloud prior the tornado pics I posted. Unfortunately my actual tornado video is useless as we were driving on a dirt road trying to keep up. I did edit some video stills from that though:

I just got back to North Carolina but was on that Truscott/Crowell storm that eventually got the tour van. It was a difficult chase because of road options (or lack thereof). The chaser convergence once we got back to pavement in Truscott was insane. I didn't get the Tor most have seen pics/vid of but I did get the one before that while trying to keep up on the dirt road (240 I think). This was grit and determination for sure. I had no interest in "zero metering" willfully or otherwise. The one downside for me is I didn't get into a position to use the drone. Here are some pics:

What an incredible day it was! I was on the road home after chasing in TX/OK. I got this tor:

It is very toasty for sure.

Thank you

All the final edits from April 7th and I promise I'm done:

I am re-editing the Apr 7th photos with much less haste this go around (more to come):

Yes it was. Also here is a ground shot of the wall cloud underneath the meso. It is easier to see here since it is not wide angle:

This one shows some striations on the base, especially bottom right:

Some shots of mine from today chasing supercells in the NC Coastal Plain:

SC has had quite a year already. Not so much up here in NC of course.

Yeah that was a wedge for sure.

Yeah it is almost tempting to chase Wednesday if the prospect for discretes improves.

Some April Fools fun:

I was on the mini-supercell that came through Raleigh at the time of the tornado warning that sent Dave to shelter at the airport. It was obscured by rain but in editing the shots you can see a lowering left of the skyline. Some of it is a drop on the lens, but it's there. The only reason I processed these is because I thought I got a glimpse of something in realtime while in position.

I missed it. I went for the southern cell of the two but that gamble didn't pay off. It was likely in rain anyway.

Here are the aerials of the updraft from the earlier mini supercell: