Chase day 2/17/09 by ia_strmchsr
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Watching a wall cloud west of Charles City, Ia. This storm produced a very brief and week tornado west of Nashua. A storm north of us produced an EF2 tornado on the north side of Austin Mn.
Comments (14)
drace68
That is a great capture of the wall cloud getting low. You low sun angle really works well here. Were the tv stations tracking this on radar? Tulsa stations have excellent radars, plus stormchasers in the field. I image you guys have similar gear on the upper Plains. Thanks for posting this.
Hendesse
Stunning shot, thanks for sharing.
frndofyaweh
Nice! One of those moments, where you're feeling fear and awe, at the same time and can't bring yourself to get to safer ground, sort of deal.
i-popba
Oh..!!! yes... stunning shot my friend...!!!
ia_strmchsr
Nope radar isn't always the best up here, the nearest radar would be either Des Moines about 130? miles out or LaCrosse 90? miles out. Still both are shooting fairly high into the sky. We do have a great network with area fire depts for spotting. As for myself, I use my cell phone and tether to my laptop for internet with Gibson software my main radar source, and a small anemometer from inspeed to measure wind speeds. But on a good day like yesterday (6/18) we get chasers from all over (even the TIV made its presence), to bad it was a bust day.
bimm3d
superb!!!
ThetaLov
Ooo-hoo-hoo! I love storm stuff! And what an awesome picture! We just recently had serious storming out here in Texas (as you might've heard), but it was nighttime otherwise I'd have taken shots.
traceyjane
fantastic picture,
MC-Jay-One
Very great capture!
elfin14doaks
Oh wow! Awesome shot!!!!!! All the good weather went south of us last night and today. My mom called to let me know the sirens went off twice last night and once today by here. Apparently Carthage College was hit last night and Somers too , don't know where they were hit today yet. All I could do is listen to while I was at work on my midland.
mairekas
Awesome/Freaky view & mood!
MrsRatbag
Really mesmerizing cloud formation! I always wanted to be a meteorologist...
bmac62
Great shot...a storm watcher (not chaser) in Kansas:)
orbital
You can clearly see the clear slot at the back there. Great shot.