Targeted my home area yesterday. In anticipation of events going severe I drove the 5 miles to the highest point with a great westerly view in my county, Waupaca, (as I could also check in with their local ARES/RACES skywarn net) and set up about an hour in advance. At about 7:30 PM GRB NWS asked for the county to open their skywarn net as a cell was passing through NW portion of our county. After checking in I watched the advance of a strong thunderstorm producing a lot of CTG lightning and precipitation in the background. SI got a call from the net liaison that GRB NWS wanted me to pay special attention to the area 3 miles to my west, I did see a lowering but I could not verify if it was rotating. About 2 minutes later I was hit with the gust front where the three aprox. 60 ft. tall maples in front of me bent to the ground. The gust front lasted for about 3 minutes and precipitation was light there after. There were about half a dozen or so live tree limbs down ranging from 6-8" inches in diameter.
I was told after the fact by the liaison that GRB had seen some light rotation on radar. I can not either verify or deny because of the lighting and speed at which these storms were flying (60 miles per hour to the north and 30 mph to the east).
Attached are a few photos from yesterdays chase.
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