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I was at a loss for words because of how beautiful this beast was! There was a strange disturbance, which brought along lots of bulk shear, I believe almost past 50kts in some spots, which you can see quite well in the structure here in these images. I witnessed some of the best structure over here in East central IL! Finally scored a real storm, for once! I had an easy drive, I got on IL-16E and headed East, towards Kansas over in Edgar county. After passing a gas station in that town, I got onto IL-49N, traveled North a few miles, and couldn't really find a good spot to stop so I said the hell with it, and stopped far off on the shoulder. The road wasn't all that busy, so I thought it wouldn't do any harm stopping there. At that point, I jumped out the driver's seat, ran out into the field and took a whopping amount of exposures: some of my favorite images yet. The time I got into Kansas was 7:20pm approximately. The storm got its act together for about 10 minutes or so, then died out, once it got over a cooler air mass. There was a tightening up area of circulation, which didn't last all that long. Even if there were recent touchdowns earlier in the day, I could care less...my structure day has been accomplished!
