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Both of these images were taken in very low light. Everything today was wrapped in rain. It was a somewhat dangerous chase day for this reason, with two very experienced chasers getting hit by a tornado to our south. Both were ok. Both of these images were taken in northwest Iowa. Our prayers are with the families of the boy scouts killed in today’s storms.
I didn’t expect this day to do much, but by noon, 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 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.
Images taken June 5th in central Iowa, while returning from a storm chasing trip in Nebraska will Bill Doms.
An elevated supercell approaches the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN from the west. The storm was rotating at the time, but much too elevated to produce a tornado.
