June 8, 2009 Central MI.

Started this day coming home from the Plains chase. Around 4 pm a tornado watch was issued for all of central MI. I headed south on 131 and stopped near Wayland. I was observing towering cumulus to my north heading towards the warm front and a already developed storm to my south. This storm to the south continued to fall apart and a new cell would form to its west. I knew I needed to get closer to the warm front and intercept the storms north of I-96. I headed east to Lansing on hwy 43. I then decided to go north to the monster storm heading south of Ithica on 127.

You tube video of the day:

As I approached 127 northbound the storm was tornado warned. I caught the southern side of the storm near Eureka and traveled east with the storm. This storm was riding the warm front and showed signs of ration visually and on radar. I was near Eureka when I stopped and observed this almost ground scrapping wall cloud.

This is a panoramic shot taking 2 images and stitching them together:

I watched this storm cycle through a couple of times. I had to reposition which brought me a little further south of the storm but was able to see some striations.

This is was taken near Elsie:

The rest of the chase was video taped. I posted my video to youtube. I witnessed some more supercell structure as I headed east and I observed a nice rotating wall cloud with a almost truncated cone. That dissipated and another area of rotation developed along and just north of West Allan RD east of Elsie. I observed RFD creating a well defined clear slot which helped produce a small funnel cloud. My lens at the time had water drops on it which I did not know about. So it goes in and out of focus. I decided to drive east as it was developing which in hindsight I should of just stayed parked. It was pretty spectacular to see this storm produce a funnel. Why? because this actually happened in Michigan and not out in the Plains.

On the way home I witnessed some very beautiful back lit mammatus and anvil.