Well that was a fun chase. Around 1 I was leaving the gym and saw what would become the tornado warned cell out east and decided I should plan a chase. By the time I got home and checked stuff out the Calgary cell was just hitting the north/central part of the city. I tried to get out on Glenmore but it was insane. I saw lightning hit a power poll about a block from me - giant blue glowing sphere was the result.
I ended up having to go south to 22X to get away from the core of the Calgary storm and tried to catch up to the tornado warned cell that was out just north of Strathmore. I did catch up to it around Hussar but it was just a huge mess of a storm by that time. I hung around a while but I didn't end up seeing any funnels. With the hail as bad as it was in the Calgary cell I decided not to try and punch through the tornado warned cell.
I wish I had have left about 20 minutes earlier, I would have been in a great position for any funnels out near Strathmore. Oh well, I managed to avoid the damaging hail. After I upload my pics I will post any that are cool.
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