We ride together. We die together. #ObsDay4Life.

Also the image quality sucks because there was SO. MUCH. DIRT. This made it extremely difficult for the camera to focus on things and diffused the light considerably.

Summary: this tornado was wild and centrifuging hail out of it at incredible speeds. We were about 200 m south of the wedge when this happened.

Finally dug through the Morton, TX hail camera data. A 1.6” diam. stone travelled between 36.5-64” (some uncertainty given the exact path it took) and took only 0.0182 seconds to do it. The means at minimum the stone was moving at 124 mph, and could’ve been as high as 202 mph.

RT @NOAAResearch: Check out how @noaanssl is revolutionizing hail forecasts one falling stone at a time ☁️🧊.More info here: .

I’ll process the images better later but it’s entertaining watching 2.5-3” diameter stones bounce off @ibhshailstudy test shingles. And casual Wellfleet tor in the background.

RT @aaronjayjack: The best 360 @insta360 reframe Timelapse known to man. Captures the full lifecycle of the Wallace/Wallfleet Nebraska torn….

Absolutely incredible tornado today near Wellfleet, NE which I think stayed over mostlyopen terrain. This thing had so much evolution over the hour it was on the ground. Got an incredible data set with the NSSL Hail/Tor Cam and close range observations near the surface. #newx

Hahahaha. I might be able to do stereo imagining on this. This is off the hail cam.

Hail cam’ing and tornado cam’ing this beefy boy. #newx

Nebraska doing Nebraska things. Supercell south of North Platt at 00Z. #newx

Hail cam is scared of the dark (hence the bright lights on the back), so glad it has a friend to keep it company tonight.

Epic light show in Hardin, MT to cap the day.

Hail Cam got a small addition today from @ibhshailstudy so we can watch hail bounce off shingles in slow mo! #hailscience

RT @NOAANSSL: A new tool is helping us better understand how hail forms and falls 🧊☁️ — aiming for improved forecasts to protect people, h….

Sounding from Tulsa, Tx at 1830 UTC in advance of today’s severe weather activity. Teams from @NOAANSSL and @TexasTech are out operating today. Courtesy @bobbysabawx on the launch/plot.

So for what might be the first time, the Hail Camera captured a stone to stone interaction where a larger stone overtakes a smaller stone, and the resulting impact sheds a torrent of water that balloons upwards which wouldn’t have happened without the collision.

For those attempting to choose a target today, here’s some additional info. Sounding from North Lubbock, TX at 18Z. Courtesy of @bobbysabawx

May have hail cam’d the tornado. Along with tennis balls sideways at 100+ mph being centrifuged by the wedge. 👀.

NSSL sounding launched from Brownfield, TX at 18Z as part of the LIFT project.

There’s something deeply satisfying about watching a golfball blast itself into oblivion at 55 mph (24 mph horizontally) The #HailCamera system is providing an absolutely unprecedented view of hail in total free fall.