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shelf cloud and supercell in Brescia July 23, 2010

Nel pomeriggio del 23 Luglio una nuova saccatura è transitata sul nord Italia, accompagnata da un forte getto in quota che ha incrementato notevolemente lo shear favorendo lo sviluppo di numerose supercelle. In particolare nel NE Italia, Veneto e Friuli nello specifico, numerosi i danni da downburst e grandine, alcuni feriti e purtroppo anche un morto a causa del crollo di un capannone.
Resposabile di molti danni nel mantovano (tra cui una sospetta tromba d'aria) and Padua is a supercell playing around 13:30 from Piacenza. That's an impressive video resume of Downburst, Everseer in Vicenza: Downburst, Everseer .

Around 10 am the day begins hunting reached our first target, Vercelli. In a car it's me, Mauro, Andrea from Turin, Alessandro Vercelli and Mauro Vercelli. In another car from Genoa 3 other chasers. Between 10.30 and 12.30 are very undecided about what to do: the Veneto could be an excellent target for the afternoon and the idea of \u200b\u200bpointing those areas continues to turn in our heads.
At the end we decided to stay, especially when several piles around the 12.30 start to develop the area. Looking at the image However, we note the satellite as cold air is still quite far from the Western Alps. At about 13:30 the first group turns in Piacenza, 2-3 shots waiting to see if radar is just a false alarm, but when we see that continues to grow, decided to rush to the run-up to that cell.
sketches in his direction, but the time runs very fast ... the radar has an impressive form, a perfect supercell connotations. We arrived in Mantua, and finally the cell is about 20 km from us. Unfortunately, in those areas there are highways that go "low" to the east and we are forced to enter a state, the SS10. The cell runs out very quickly and we, at best, moving at 60 km / h in traffic. The nervousness begins to skyrocket: Every time we spend about 30 minutes after the storm in the countries that were hit (we also note some minor wind damage), without ever reaching it. The situation is really frustrating and exhausting. Finally, in the area Legnaro, near Padua in now, give up and we reverse. Shortly after deciding to go back, apart from a supercell in Casale Monferrato, exactly where we were standing still waiting to 12.30. At this point, after an initial cascade of insults, remains silent for several minutes ... For about half an hour
Vercelli in the supercell is very nice to the radar, then numerous thunderstorms in the north and leave the north east and becomes the same supercell Vercelli part of a line of cells.
another supercell remains isolated in Lombardy, near Brescia, and we are perfect to intercept it. When we arrive in the area, waiting for the photograph and also a good shelf. The time goes by very fast, the wall cloud is visible for long. We try to follow him to the east, yet they are many other groups of precipitation and it becomes impossible to return under the meso to the streets of those areas. We decide to go back and see that a second line of thunderstorms approaching from the west. The waiting area in Ghedi (BS) cells where the line comes preceded by a beautiful shelf cloud at sunset. We put ourselves in the middle of a lawn to take pictures and when they begin to fall the first drops of rain under the shelf, back into the car. When I prepare to close the stand, it does not want to know ... Paperissima begins a scene in which I, screaming like crazy, wield the stand and threw it on the ground to make it close. Unfortunately, no one has made a video of this moment "trash" ... help me to close the damn, it took three men. At the end turns against me, and I still smashing his head in his hand. I had bought new the week before, it will mean I'll go back to using the old one full of duct tape that he did his duty for two years and a half without ever resist.
Let's go home and surrounded by a thunderstorm updraft that light up with new lightning. Moving west, we enter the area with clear air, with the entry of cold air and behind us we have the moon with all the time. Thinking of finding a point to take pictures between Milan and Bergamo is pure utopia.
arrive home after more than 800 km routes ... a hunting style American plains in terms of distance traveled. A cool head, if we had remained in Vercelli, we probably would have driven very little, we would see the updraft near Casale for about half an hour, then we would be trapped in the line of precipitation that has failed to form (not to mention that the same supercell is splitted and they are size 2). At that point it was impossible to bring before the system due to the speed with which they move and hunt ended early serebbe . Here is a VIDEO the supercell of Vercelli Andrea Colombo.

The supercell in Mantua