After yesterdays spout outbreak, there was again a good chance of spout development. At first I went to Flevoland to chase a couple of storms over land, but these weren't active or photogenic. Then i got a call from Wilco who was standing at Lake IJsselmeer. I also got a call from a reporter of newspaper Dag. She wanted to join us on a chase and write an article about it. Well, that was ok with me....
The reporter first joined Roy Keeris and they should arrive in about half an hour at the dyke Lelystad-Enkhuizen. Wilco and I shot some photos of convection and distant storms. New storms started to develop to our far west and these slowly drifted offshore over Lake IJsselmeer. Roy, the reporter and a camereman arrived at the location and we all waited for things to evolve. After a bout 15 minutes to showers came closer of which one was producing thunder every 2 minutes or so. Then, underneath it's base, a small funnel formed, slowly growing larger. We had perfect visibility and could document it excellent. I also made a timelapse film, which I hope to add to this site later. The reporter made a film for the newpaper website. You can watch it HERE.
After the funnel dissipated and the storm weakened, Wilco and I drove south towards Almere were more storms were present. These produced frequent lightning, but we didn't see another funnel cloud.
Short chase log in Dutch:
Vanmiddag hebben Wilco, Roy en ik een redelijk succesvolle hozenjacht gehad. In gezelschap van een cameraman en een journaliste van Dag, waren we getuige van een aardige hoos.
We stonden op een parkeerplaats op de dijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen, aan de kant van Lelystad en zagen even na 14 uur gedurende circa 15 minuten in westelijke richting een hoos die tot maximaal de helft gecondenseerd was.
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