It's Friday June 5th and the entire Vortex2 crew has converged upon a single supercell storm located in Goshen county Wyoming. It's here where the team is hoping to intercept a tornado and gather extremely valuable information.

Vans like these called mobile mesonets drive to the storm and get as close as they can all the while recording vital weather parameters like temperature, dewpoint, humidity and wind speeds. But they also drop pods in the path of the storms.

"We try to drop these instruments in the path of the storm and get data"

Back on the road, one of the key things stormchasers look for before a tornado is a rotating wall cloud. And guess what, we found just that. A lowering from the cloud base as you can see here. This is a huge red flag telling us a tornado may form at anytime.

Now I am just starting to see the beginnings of a funnel cloud trying to come down. At this point I knew I needed to get ahead of the storm and try to stay out of the baseball sized hail that this storm may produce.

Well, too late. As I was trying to escape from the hail, all of a sudden right behind me the tornado finally formed.

Incredible to watch but I had to get out of the path since it was heading straight for me.

Once I made it to a safe location I just sat and watched. Spectacular. Out in an open field, no buildings, no people, no animals. Just mother nature at work.

The tornado was a few miles away from me and you can see the storm at its strongest with a rather wide base. It started to become rain wrapped, you can see how the sheets of rain are trying to obscure the tornado. As it got closer it started to change shape and become a long mature tornado with almost a clear color. This is where the tornado crossed the road I was on.

As it made its way to the other side of the road it quickly started to "rope out" or in other words dissiapate. But this has been a textbook deployment for the team with a direct intercept that translates into terrabites of new weather data that they have never recorded before but part of the team didn't fair so well as they were trapped between the tornado and grapefruit sized hail.