Played the Illinois warm front and intercepted a wicked looking monster HP supercell that put on a visual show despite missing a weak, brief tornado on the storm to our east.

Documented a couple brief, weak tornadoes in eastern Iowa, then jumped to more storms in Illinois that dropped some sub-severe hail, but awesome sunset mammatus.

Chased a couple clustered supercells across northern Oklahoma from Enid to Perry, but too many storms in an uncapped setup lead to a few marginally severe storms that ultimately yielded nothing more than a few scary looking clouds.

On the board with the first tornadoes of the season, but this chase will forever be known for the Illinois record-breaking hail over 5" in diameter, largest hail I have ever seen! And the best single lightning clip I've ever shot!

Went with the secondary northeast Kansas target over the primary Oklahoma target for better terrain/road options, but storms that fired were too quickly undercut and resulted in a bust along I-70.

Hoped for pre-sunset supercells in northwest Texas, but the cells that did form didn't strengthen til dark, where I would test the hail core of one near Memphis before calling it a night.

My 30th season kicks off with a supercell-filled day across southeast Illinois that ended in a blizzard of hail and an almost tornado near the Wabash River.