Alberta Foothills Weather

A fantastic Alberta foothills supercell show today for the folks west of Red Deer.
Around 2pm, towers began to rise over the foothills, and by 4:30 we were sitting between Caroline and Rocky Mountain house watching a beautiful storm move out to the east. It took a few wiggles to the north and south as it slowly moved toward Red Deer, dropping 30mm hail and torrential rain along the way. Constant bombardment by the hail seeding planes from Weather Modification hopefully helped reduce the crop damage, but I suspect there will be some out there as the core was pretty thick for about a 20 mile strip.
Some fairly intense rotation in the tail end of it from just north of Markerville to south of Sylvan lake for about 20 minutes before the storm was lifted/eaten/destroyed by a new cell starting up near Gleniffer Lake, which quickly blew up and began to drop hail on the Red Deer river valley west of Innisfail before petering out just east of town.

Local storm chaser Brandon Brown was out west chasing the same storm we were watching and sent in these shots from his trip. Thanks Brandon, great pics!