I posted a video of our severe thunderstorm from 2 days ago. That video was not made at the height of the storm. This one is. The video starts shortly after the rain came in. Normally in the thunderstorms I have observed the strongest wind was with the gust front, just before the rain. This was different. Started out breezy with moderate rain and got progressively worse. The hail got bigger and bigger and the biggest hail was at the tail end of the storm, not on the video. Things start to get crazy around the 1 minute mark.
Initially the wind came in from the west but as the storm got going it veered to due south. The bigger hail was at the end of the storm, not on the video. From my observation the most and biggest hail fell about 1/2 mile south of me. Interesting to note 1 mile north of me had very little wind.
Visibility dropped to perhaps 1/8 of a mile by 1:20 about the same as I see in a heavy snowsquall. I also notice something that I have never seen talked about. The hailstones were hitting the Stratus funnel and bouncing right out. Obviously each nickel to near quarter size hailstone is equal to a lot of water. So the 1" of rain in the status might have been more. Also I wonder if strong wind gusts reduce the accuracy of a rain gauge?