8/3/10 Omaha big hail and lightning pics

omaha had a small, but very intense storm move over parts of southwest and southern areas of town this evening. the day was very warm and the atmosphere was extremely unstable. right at sunset, storms started to fire over the area. one storm formed northwest of town and became severe as it moved southeast. the first reports of large hail were in elkhorn west of town where ping pong sized hail(1.5") was reported. the storm strengthened until there were several reports of baseball and larger sized hail up to 3" in diameter. the area affected was small but there were several reports of busted out windshields, and one car dealership had severe damage. the area hit hardest was in ralston, which is a southern suburb of omaha.
i went out to take lightning pics, first north of town up I-29, then headed back towards northern Omaha. the storm that was dropping the hail stayed far enough south that i couldn't get any good pics. i headed south down I-29 and started to run into heavy rain. i had to turn on my wipers on high and not more than 10 seconds later, the wipers crossed each other causing the drivers side wiper to basically explode off the windshield, leaving me blind driving down the interstate! i was able to pull over safely to the shoulder, and had to wait til the rain let up to continue onto an exit that i could park at. i was with a friend, and we continued on to south of council bluffs where we got some decent pics of the storms.
here's some links to some pics and a news story:
http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/99916209.html

http://ulocal.ketv.com/_Giant-Hail/p.../62922.html?b=
http://ulocal.ketv.com/_hail/photo/1.../62922.html?b=