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June 23, 2022
Severe/Tornado Warned Storm between Yorkton - Dubuc SK Canada

I love this shot so much !!!
This is technically my FIR...
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June 23, 2022
Severe/Tornado Warned Storm between Yorkton - Dubuc SK Canada

I love this shot so much !!!
This is technically my FIRST Barn & Storm photo !!!
This was somewhere between Grayson & Dubuc.

The models for this day was suggesting a variety of storm options all over the province, and some could become tornadic! Swift Current, Saskatoon, PA, Moose Jaw, Estevan and Yorkton area.

I had to work super early in the am so I went with the local chase (Yorkton area).

Storm did form all over the place! I stood my ground and when I pixel formed on radar in my area, I went for it (that being South of Melville)!

I caught a beautiful little cell at Killaly that was trying to become a stronger storm, but struggled at the start.

I stayed with it as I pushed East to Grayson and then to Dubuc. It would weaken and the strengthen up, weaken and then strengthen up. Ended up having 1 or 2 wall clouds on the system.

At this point, it was shortly after 7pm and I knew I had to be up at 2am for work, so made a quick decision that it won’t do much more (perhaps tried to convince myself to leave, haha).

Anyways, I did! As it reached areas like Esterhazy, it grew into absolutely fantastic storm structure!

At that point, I was already heading back, hoping to play with the storm that was near Otthon.

I caught up to that storm and had a possible lowering right off the bat! I stayed with it until just a couple miles South of Yorkton on hwy 9 where I caught some brilliant structure!

That structure .... brought the hail !!!

Yorkton got beat up pretty bad with this hail storm and it kept moving East and I headed home.
The largest hail stone I seen was Golf Ball sized.

With the hail and the 1.5 inches of rain, in a very short time - they city streets were flooded!

As I made my way home, a 3rd system was now on it’s way to Yorkton but I really needed some sleep (after 10 pm). This storm had some incredible structure in it !!!

Hell of a chase day!

CHASE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjyxGH6cLk

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