Today's photos show the number one thing I worry about when chasing -- poor driving conditions. These were taken *before* sunset -- though admittedly rather late in the day.
The first photo was taken as the Vortex 2 probe teams pulled over in western Kansas to wait for a hail core to pass. The operational day was over -- V2 doesn't operate as it approaches evening -- and the trucks have tons of expensive weather instrumentation mounted atop their hoods. Despite this, they didn't escape the hail core (and neither did I, as I was following them) -- fortunately, it wasn't terribly large hail, just buckets and buckets of quarters and a truly intense core of pea sized hail that sounded like God was dumping a skyfull of pebbles on the roof of my car. (Sometimes I wish I shot video.)
The second photo is of us finally emerging from the precipitation of this storm, with the light of setting sun just creeping in under the stormclouds. For a linear storm, this thing packed a surprising wallop. I'm pretty sure there was a supercell embedded somewhere in there.
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