March 2nd: MI
March 15: GA
Kentwood, MI, March 2, 2008
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Commerce GA, March 15, 2008
The night before We decided to head to Commerce as our target. Well that panned out as we approached we encountered a HP supercell with quarter size hail. Rotation was very evident.
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We let that pass as it was moving way to fast for us to keep up with. We waited in Commerce for the second supercell but decided to move closer, and positioned north of Jefferson. We witnessed a few brief glimpses of a nice structured wall cloud but had to drop farther south towards Jefferson to get a better view. We found the airport and went a few miles farther south and found another opening and witness this HP structure.
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We then had to continue to Jefferson as to evade the hail core that had spurts of golf ball or larger hail. We then headed east to Nicholson. As we cleared the hail core we witness tight rotation with strong differential motion but it was quickly enveloped by the hail core. Then we dropped down to Athens, to evade the rest of the hail core and eventually made our way back up to Royston where we intercepted our third tornado warned supercell. This one was more classic, but was being over taken by downdraft outflow, but still gave us some nice structure. I think Royston was the most open area we were able to chase in most of the day except at the end of the day were we found another quadrant of open field where we witnessed our last super cell.
These are from Royston:
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We then headed SE out of Royston and intercepted the last tornado warned supercell of the day for us. We witnessed a dying wall cloud and then it just collapsed and rained out on top of us. Fortunately behind this storm was sunshine offering a very close up rainbow. It, however, did not have a pot of gold at the end.
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On the way back to TN, we witnessed another rainbow over the mountains of NC.
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