Two rounds of storms today. the first cell moved to the north of my location by about a mile got some good shots from the south side with a section that could have been a small shear vortex.
later on in the day we tracked a bowing line of storms coming up from the south. This looked to affect the area so i got things ready here and waited until the line was about 20 miles to the south. No warnings were issued for this line only the mention of strong storms in the area.
Not having a vehicle today i was limited to spotting from my home location i went to the corner of Camelot drive and watched the darkening sky to the south grow closer. as it did i started seeing features that at the time i figured was a shelf cloud... boy that was a mistake.. turns out as it got overhead and looking southeast there was a very large wall cloud with what looked like a visible mesocyclone towering above it. looking back to the west there were some lowerings with very fast vertical motion that i was told were funnels just not very organized...
after snapping a few pics that way i turned back to the wall cloud and noticed what looked like a small dark funnel poking out of the base a few seconds later the cloud base around it lowered and blocked my view of it and the rain Heavy rain and hail started falling blocking out that whole side of the storm winds peaked at 40-50 mph with almost white out conditions for about 5 minutes then the sky cleared quickly im thinking the wind was from the RFD ... over all it was a good storm.
you can see the photos of both storms here: July 12 2006 KYThunder Photos
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