Hail / Wet Microburst - Olton, TX - May 6, 2008

Storm chasers Michael Laca, Jim Leonard and Ray Walker intercepted a multi-cellular complex of supercell thunderstorms near Olton, Texas (northwest of Lubbock), on the afternoon of May 6, 2008. The initial storm (southwest of Olton) was relatively small but developed classic LP supercell features including a highly tilted mesocyclone, beautifully backlit by the sun.

The second storm evolved into a large HP supercell that prodcued a small and very brief funnel south of Olton and large hail in the fields to the north of the town.

The last storm approached Olton from the south with Level 2 radar data indicating a strong rotational couplet and four inch hail. As the storm neared Olton an extremely ominous, and rapidly moving hail shaft/microburst developed and moved northward across the town.

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• Tornado
• Tornadic
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• May
• 2008
• Hail
• Shaft
• Thunderstorm
• Olton
• Lubbock
• Texas
• Panhandle
• Storm
• Chase
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• Severe
• Weather
• Wet
• Microburst
• Michael
• Laca
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[JerseyShore117]

Why is one of your tags 1080p?/

[vmax135]

@JerseyShore117 I included that tag because the footage was shot at 1080p and I wanted to ensure anyone interested in licensing it knew that it was available in that format... and, if someone searched using that criteria this clip would hopefully be returned somewhere in their results.

[JerseyShore117]

@vmax135 Oh okay good idea. And that wall of dust was coming right at you guys!

[vmax135]

@JerseyShore117 Yeah, although that wasn't dust... it was a dense precipitation core of large (>4-inch) hail and very heavy rain. If we had stayed at the location we were at, towards the end of the video, we probably would have taken some significant hail damage to the car.

[minibikedod]

you should come storm chase in MI we got some pretty wicked storms

[vmax135]

@minibikedod If the set-up is right, who knows, I might wind up in MI on one of my future chases!

[Wobstormi]

I Think it´s not healthy to drive into the hail core of a LP-Supercell ;)

Hail can grow up to 15cm size in a LP-Supercell ;)

[Jamiesyme999]

wow, what a beautiful storm

[MrNeonmonkey12]

so amazing its moving soooo fast!...DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!

[Rcrby525]

@RobloxTitanicMovie IT'S A FULL ON RAINBOW MAN

[MrSveners]

sweet

[JerseyShore117]

@vmax135 Oh wow

[RobloxTitanicMovie]

4:56 DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!! SO BRIGHT SO VIVID

[AtarahDerek]

@krazedgunner Good grief, did the storms form a union and decide to do all their wind damage on the 22nd of each month this year?