The day started ou sunny & quite warm, I had to work 11:30-6:30pm

tonight. Luckly where I work I have a very excellent view outside.  At

around 12:30-12:45pm some light showers moved into the area. Rain was

very brief& the sun reappeared with a spectacular rainbow.

Temperatures heated back into the upper 60's, lower 70's while it was

extremely humid.  About 4pm a thunderstorm approached from the west.

This storm brought hail upto 1" (Quarter) & heavy rain.

Storms contnuied to backbuild with a very severe storm approached

Manasssas with a very well defined Shelf cloud, Mammantus clouds were

also visiable. Hail to 3/4" (Dime)  frequent cloud to cloud & cloud to

ground lightning. I was able to chase this storm & will post pictures

later tonight!!

The third storm which I just shared, was quite defined & puts a person

in aww of the beauty & power a thunderstorm can produce.  This

thunderstorm turned day into night, Nearly pitch black!!!

Jason Breakiron

Manassas, Virginia

M.E.S.O Storm Chase Team