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The little cell popping up a mile or two north of my house has produced quite a lot of lightning

If there's a profound Nader shot I'm taking it

Yeah, I'd love to go up but this chase would even make the last one look insignificant. It's doable but I'd have to leave early as hell and I'd make it back ridiculously late. If it's worth it though....

I messed up, there's a D4 out rn, not a D5 like I thought for whatever reason

Have we had a D5 15% severe threat yet?

Absolutely incredible weather this afternoon

In case anyone's interested, here are a couple horrible pictures that we managed to take . I'm pretty sure two distinct funnels are visible in the first picture. The entire thing presented more as like a mutli-vortex wall cloud that damn near just collapsed to the ground. Briefly, this condensation funnel emerged, but it lasted for literally less than fifteen seconds, and we were trying to get over a hill for a better view, hence why we couldn't get a halfway decent photo. In the second, equally low-resolution image, the entire base of the meso seems to be visible. It was quite the sight; my very first textbook supercell, and honestly, seeing the whole thing form was easily as exciting as the tornado itself. Unfortunately, I left my camera at home today, and the very rapid formation and movement of the wall cloud meant that there was basically nothing we could do to take decent pictures on our phones either until minutes after the wall cloud retracted again. T'was a good experience, but not one worth driving over 550 miles for. Granted half of that was picking someone up from Milwaukee. Didn't help that we left at like 12:30 either. We barely managed to get something worthwhile out of this trip. Dunno what I'd do if we would have gone out that far for nothing. Also, to the Wisconsin posters here... Wow. Your state is beautiful.

That sounds very familiar, my friend says he remembers one parked on the side of the road. Dunno if that was you though lol. Still cool to think about though

Quite likely, we were driving a gray 2003 Civic I have some low quality footage that I'll try to upload when I get home. Though the tornado only lasted for 10 seconds the supercell was incredibly picturesque.

Not sure what happened, this thing had a crazy looking mesocyclone for a few minutes and now it looks a like a bunch of innocent clouds. Hoping it can wrap up again but

I saw it drop for literally ten seconds and retract again, still rotating hard

Same boat here, a little bit farther west.

Agreed closing in on the two bigger ones on the end

Stop all this negative talk before I drive my car off an overpass

Heading west as fast as possible now, still got a while to go

On the way up, think I'm too late but whatever

Tons of ruined trees around now in Aurora.

Good chase day for naders? Pardon the obnoxious question

Pretty lackluster here entirely, it rained fairly hard but I doubt winds got above even 45

That may be worth looking into, I was supposed to go up to Milwaukee to visit a friend for a beach day, but if there's decent stuff in the area then why not

Like big boy ones or the micro thangs

How are things looking gang? What's with the strange silence

Check out the jaw-droppingly awesome tornado picture my friend managed to get from the passenger seat

Today was really am interesting day for me. Obviously, my meteorological expertise doesn't match that of many of you, so apologies for the crude assessment. I started the day off by going to the wrong storm (the one up by Davis Junction) which was initially fairly impressive on radar initially but quickly turned into a high-precip aneurysm right as we reached it. Immediately doubled back, went for the cell south of Rockford (SchaumburgStormer said it was getting "that look") which turned out to be a brilliant call. Ended up being right between two cells; the southern one was tiny but actually produced a thin, white, rain-wrapped tube that became the first tornado that I've ever observed. Though it faded after ten minutes and I'm not even sure if it touched down, that tornado alone made the whole trip worth it. We followed those storms for about an hour, driving back and forth between the two areas of rotation. The SE one (that produced my tornado iirc) had what I considered to be an extremely impressive signature, and another nader was confirmed there but I never saw it. Definitely got way too close to it, I was more or less right next to the couplet which was a certified Dumbass moment™. Never actually saw shit, since the whole thing was another HP shit shoot. Stayed with it anyway, until it cycled again and started rotating hardcore over Saint Charles. Rain wasn't an issue this time, but the terrain was. Got too close to the river and couldn't see shit again, even with sirens going off everywhere. ALEK asked if I was having any luck on that cell, to which I tried replying that I believed it had gusted out mere moments after being warned again, which is a kick in the ass (my reply never sent though I don't think). Abandoned that thing, since it was going straight into suburbia, and went back to the Sycamore storm that everyone else with a brain was following. Got there just a few minutes too later, only got a glimpse of a dissipating wall cloud. After that, I basically started for home, having had my fill for the day. I'm just glad I got to see that little pipe at the start... If I would somehow have managed to miss every single tornado of the day, I'd never get over it. Obviously I have a lot to learn still.

I got here just after it lifted probably