No log yet.  Just watch the video!                                        

Unfortunately, today turned out to be more of an equipment test (CB and GPS) than a good chase.  The CB's weather radio works better than I thought it would, considering I need some sort of noise filter to get rid of the alternator noise on the regular channels.  The GPS works awesome!  What a great tool and no more maps.
 
We chased for 6 hours/166km and got another free truck wash.  hahaha.  Well not actually free.  The old truck drank a tank of gas.  lol!    Click map to enlarge


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We caught up with this storm on Morgans Rd., just out side of Newcastle around 4:30 pm this afternoon.



Just after this baby passed over, the wind, rain and hail was pretty intense. My best guess the wind got to around 60 kph with pea sized hail. Visibility was drastically reduced, so we waited it out before heading behind it. We never caught up to it but instead witnessed some flooding and trees down as the result.
We talked with one couple who witnessed 1 inch hail and said it sounded like their "back door was gonna' come in". And a farmer who owns the downed tree said he and his partner stood 40 feet inside their barn and they still got wet from the hail that was blowing in horizontaly.

For some distance along the middle of Hwy 2 in that area were a lot of small branches and leaves as well as  large branches and trees along the side.
The Weather Network is saying a tornado possibly touched in Newcastle but they are waiting for Environment Canada's take on it.  Was more than likely a microburst.

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We caught up with this tornado warned storm at  Victoria Park Ave & Miller Rd. at around 5:30pm. The amount of rotation was amazing but it couldnt keep it together to go severe, which in this case I was glad since this is a populated area!  Click map to enlarge

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