I didn’t expect this day to do much. Bill called, but I wasn’t inspired to get out the door. By noon, after watch my friend, the Sig Tor parameter, climb to levels I like to see, and storm development looking imminent, I was out the door for a relatively close storm chase. I headed out to southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa for an unexpected tornado outbreak. It wasn’t the most beautiful day, and everything seemed to be concealed by rain, but more often than not, I ended up in the right place at the right time and saw between two and four tornadoes. I saw two tornadoes, strongly rotating rain bands which could have been a tornado, and 4 minutes of ground rotation, which could have been either a tornado or gustnado. I also determined I need to shoot more video. Awesome rotation this day.
[Edit: After review pictures showing debris in the air and vertical bands connecting the ground to the wall cloud, I'm convinced the rotation witness first was a multi-vortex tornado.]
A multi-vortex tornado sweeps across a turkey farm in Iowa causing damage.
A gustnado/tornado moves east on the leading edge of the storm base. I am looking south with rain to my north and west.
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I took some artistic strokes to this image of a dying thunderstorm.
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