February 29, 2000:  Northwest Missouri Chase (Northeast Nodaway County, MO Hail-storm)
Chasers:  Mike Umscheid & Jonathan Smith


   
Updraft tower looking northwest from near St. Joseph at around 3:35pm.  These new towers developed in the wake of the previous arc of convection just an hour or so beforehand (left).  A second tower in the series of updrafts to the west and northwest at 3:40pm (right).

      
Hail covering the bare ground in northeastern Nodaway County, MO around 5:00pm.  The storm that produced the hail actually occurred over an hour prior to these images (left).  Small hail piled to a couple inches alongside highway 246 east of Hopkins, MO (center).
Hail covering the middle of eastbound SR-246 (right).

      



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last updated:  February 29, 2000

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