End of Day (II)

Project Vortex 2 wraps up a day of chasing near Amazonia, Missouri, June 7, 2009. This is a storm V2 chased down -- and then was chased by, the entire armada screaming down I-29 with 5 1/2 inch hailstones ricocheting off of some of the slower satellite trucks. (The next morning I went to check damage at the hotel -- only one blown windshield in the crew, and the satellite truck that took the brunt of the hail was operated by the Navy -- and featured a satellite dish designed to take small arms fire.)

This is the back end of the storm a few minutes after the mesocyclone passed overhead.

Best viewed at fullsize, though the original here is scaled down quite a bit -- the original is a JPEG over 35MB large.