Not much to say here, just great looking structure!
This ragged lowering was definitely developing strong upward motion and its height was decreasing steadily.
The motion to this was great, it was twisting, spinning and moving faster and faster.
I was waiting and I'm sure most chasers were thinking the same thing, that the storm was about to produce.
The storm and wall cloud were now around 2-3 km away. The hail marker was also around 2.5" so this was spitting out some nasty hail stones.
It was sure trying hard to spin something up but my time was running out, I needed to reposition south if I was not going to be run over.
As I looped around the town of Bennett I saw one of the DOW trucks observing the storm.
Here's my car and Doppler On Wheels.
I took this shot to show how busy some of these secondary roads were becoming with chasers and locals heading out to see the storm.
I also ran into the PDS Storm Tours Group. I first saw them in 2010/2011 and they've been a frequent sight on many chase days,
Here's a shot looking north into the storm. I'm not sure what was going on but it was becoming outflow laden and all the prior structure just dissolved into nothing.
This did have me worried, outflow dominant storms don't produce tornadoes and often don't live very long.
The storm at this point looked to be doing a cycling stage where the old quasi stationary mesocyclone structure fell apart into a more linear updraft but farther west on the flanking line a new rotating updraft was building into the cloud and would eventually take over as the primary updraft.
The intensity of the core and cloud motion gave away what was going to happen.
So at this point, my outflow dominant concern sort of faded.
This storm really had its phases!
In what felt like five minutes of driving away from the storm, I looked over my shoulder to see this monstrous inflow structure redevelop.
As I raced away from the storm which was threatening to eat me before I stopped to take this photo, the winds suddenly began to howl out of the southeast and overtook the outflow pushing it back.
Tumble weed and all sorts of stuff just went flying across the road.