After producing a funnel cloud farther west near Grand Lake, the Afton supercell crossed the Missouri border and moved deeper into the Ozarks. With its environment and the terrain both becoming less favorable, I let the storm go, cutting northward behind it to see what hail it had dropped. As expected for a cold-core supercell in the winter, it produced copious amounts of small hail, drifted rather thickly in places. The largest hailstone, at the center of the image, still was only a little over half an inch in diameter, less than dime size. Settling atop, beneath and between leftover autumn leaves, the hail made a striking contrast and textured the scene quite naturally artistically.
2 SSW Hart MO (30 Jan 21) Looking down
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