Mothership by Govan SK

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July 15, 2022 Severe/Tornado Warned Storm between Wynyard - Edgeley SK Canada YOWIE WOWIE !!!! WHAT A BEAST !!! South of Govan looking West This day’s forecasting was a challenge! It was one of those day that from the night before to the next am, everything shifted and then shifted again and again. Originally, my target was around Raymore or Southey. (And I was watching for the models to shift to the North West like it has been in the past so in my mind, Foam Lake haha). I was also seeing the days events happen in 2 phases. One earlier on in the day (1-3pm) and the next weather event starting between 4-6 pm. The storms did sort of follow this, but earlier. The first system began forming around 11:15 am as it went through Allen Sk and dropped a Landspout Tornado. At the point, I was in my vehicle and heading towards Foam Lake to start the chase day! I had my live stream fired up just East of Wynyard at 2pm to officially start my chase day. Around 3:41 pm, I was South of Jansen on a storm with a nice base. I followed it till it’s death around 5pm when I then headed towards Lockwood. From there, I could see the base of the storm to my South West and it was looking nice, even from afar! I blasted South to keep out of it’s direct path and to stay dry. I also forgot at that moment that between myself and the storm (was around Imperial), was Last Mountain Lake. That prevented my plan of getting to the South side of it, so I did the next best thing and blasted South of Govan and went West on a grid road. Around 6:15pm I had some absolutely incredible storm structure !!! It actually kept getting better, and better and better! After watching that storm for quite a while, I picked my jaw up off the ground and dropped South towards Strasbourg. Things got a little intense while driving as on the way there, I was near some rotation to my West. Once I get to Strasbourg, it got a little intense yet again as the entire sky was rotating and for a moment I had a sick feeling that the town was about to get struck by a Tornado! Luckily, that did not happen! From there, I headed towards Fairy Hill and seen yet again, some insane sky structure! The day just didn’t want to end, haha!!! After that, I headed towards Piapot where I got near some rotation yet again. While that was happening, just East of me at Edenwold, there was a funnel cloud reported by another chaser. The storm had a dangerous core in it and was moving the exact same direction as me so I decided to let it go. I slowly made my way to Edenwold and there, as the storm was now East of me, I witnessed some of the most beautiful Mammatus Clouds I’ve ever seen to date! I watched them for a bit, and then that’s when the insane lighting show began. What a hell of a beautiful chase day!!!

Taken By

Ryan Crouse

Taken On

July 19, 2022

Tagged

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