All this warm weather recently has paid off, with high cape 1000j/kg and a strong but not to strong cap. Meeting at Ludwell around midday we headed north to the M4, then belted west and then north up the M5. Online reports indicated that the storms initiated around 1:30 up in north Wales so we had some ground to cover. At Birmingham we broke left to Shewsbrury with catching a slow moving storm hanging over the Isle of Anglesey but on checking the latest Met office radar we say that it was decaying so reset our sites for a nice looking storm around the Chester/Wirral area.
From a distance it looked a nice solid growing cell. Once under the cell we were rewarded for driving over half way up the country with a few good strikes of lightning. As these are pulse storms it was already dying so we headed for home (via a quick tour of Liverpool and the docks), eventually getting home in the early hours. We were pretty satisfied with this chase because we caught the best of what was going and really couldn’t hope for much more with no shear!