Thanks Roman. Glad you liked those. I was quite scared for a while when it passed over me. The same gust front continued moving east for many miles until it arrived in Maghaberry, John sent me over this image taken from his home of the same beast. It had stopped firing out lightning by that stage but had formed a very threatening shape low to the ground. He told me he never seen anything like it from there in 25 years.
The Aug 11th gust front was the best I have seen to date. Gust fronts/shelf clouds mark the leading edge of a storm due to cool air blown down and ahead of the storm in the form of wind and rain/hail/snow. In some cases they can damage trees and properity. You don't need a t-storm to see them though, big organized convective showers can produce them to. They comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes...
This one was enormous and produced a snow and hail storm. Pity I seen it from the side and not from the front.
Keep your camera handy when there's a convective outlook issued for your area and you will catch one
