Small hail and shelf cloud, Olathe , KS

It's been 3 in a row of at least slight threatening weather for someplace in Kansas or nearby. Since I teach, I can't run off and have to hope things will wait until later. But the weather is cooperates or not.
On Wed 4/23/2008, school ended and I heard the heavy rain. I went to a window and saw it was hailing. The first hailstones I could see of the 2008 Spring!
I ran out to my car, got my Canon camera and started shooting and examining hail size. Most were very small pea sized but a few were a little bigger. (Later I heard there was bigger sized ones in Independence , MO). The hail pretty much melted away in 10 minutes.
Riding around Olathe and then Overland Park,KS I could see the tops of a shelf cloud (that could be seen by other chasers near Ottawa further west) . But things were pretty much over. Since the weather was not that threatening anymore and subsiding I just went to workout.
Here are some hail shots.

Frutrating search and storm poops out over Olathe, KS

I left teaching in Olathe at around 5:00. While there were possibility of more potential severe weather farther away, my immediate target was a meeting place (that I never found) around Nall Avenue in Overland Park. I heard the reports of severe thunderstorms over the line in some counties in Missouri and some severe thunderstorms were south near Paola. I headed North on I-35.

Frustrated at not finding this Country Club off of Tomhawk ( serves me right for using Mapquest and not using GoogleMaps or Yahoo Maps- no GPS yet sorry), I abandoned my search. Watched the skies and listening to the radio reports at the same time, I headed back to Olathe.

Several vehicles had crashed slightly into each other right ahead of me during the rain downpour. Near Olathe after 6:00, I could see a nice storm to the West, heading towards Olathe and I-35. Getting on to Sante Fe in Olathe (off of I-35), the promising cell pooped out and got quite ragged. I had my camera but I decided it was not worth taking a picture of.

A teacher the next morning said there was a report of small tornado near St. Joseph. I quickly looked up the SPC report and yup, he was right.
Then I found that news report of what happened
http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2008/apr/11/possible-tornado-hits-south-side/