Haha I too ended up in Hamilton!!! what are the chances of a chaser convergence there.
After getting on to the atomic bomb updrafts near Kyneton at lunchtime (boy were they impressive) and seeing a large and briefly organised cell south of Malmsbury I was fortunate enough later and after lots of driving to get onto a gorgeous supercell near Lake Bolac!
Yes I know, on a day with poor shear it seems a long bow, however this cell near Lake Bolac was incredible with a persistent rotating updraft and I think classic supercell structure as I drove straight at it west from near north of Skipton in perfect chase country
I had unobscured views as this structured machine pulled up low scud into funnels and tried repeatedly to condense down! This storm was truly a beauty with updraft clearly seperated from precip, long low level inflow, blue sky contrast, big elongated anvil mammatus and serious funnel action. Finally, the storm transitioned into a more LP structure where the rotating updraft was more revealed. In true LP style when it gave up the ghost it did it real quickly
Photos and video look fantastic on quick review.
As I said in the stormchasing thread, I cant believe my last 10 or so days of chasing
Wed 24th Nov - LP corkscrewing storm (the pretzel!) in the southwest (cant confirm if the updraft was rotating long enough for supercell status or not)
Fri 26th Nov - Craigieburn supercell and then the Wallen convergence (close to tornadoing, no confirmation)
Tues 30th Nov - remnants of the strong deviant (left mover) cell from Flowerdale, with small funnels
Thurs 2nd Dec - Gisborne/Melton supercell timelapse from formation of the base (wow!)
Fri 3rd Dec - Elmore to Heathcote entire supercell lifecycle and boy did it want to tornado early and persistently!
Sat 4th Dec - nice organised storm near Heathcote
Sun 5th Dec - Kyneton severe and organised storm and then my days highlight, a gorgeous (perhaps classic with transition to LP) supercell near Lake Bolac which blew me away!
Brad.