July 6th 2003 Grant and Douglas Counties Minnesota

This is still under dispute to this day.  Several other chasers reported a touchdown on this but we were too far away to say for sure.  EXTREMELY short lived funnel.

Shear funnel as we approach the storm near Barrett, MN.

My son Cullen waits to see if the cell will produce for us.

Wide view of the meso with large beaver tail going off to the southeast.

Wall cloud passed nearly overhead and looks like it could produce at any time.

Wild wall cloud with awesome tail (with hail) approaches us south of Evansville, MN.

Now this is what I call getting up close and personal!

The RFD is too much and rips the rotation apart.  Obviously undercut and gusting out.

Shot with the 35mm south of Evansville and near Brandon, MN.

Rapid rotation with the RFD cutting in.  Time for do or die for this cell.

One more 35mm scan as the RFD starts to rip the wall cloud apart.

Inflow tail near Alexandria, MN.

Weak wall cloud with tail near Garfield, MN.

Eric Whitehill meets up with us at Osakis, MN to take in the show.

Thanks to Theresa Caspers for sending me this shot.  (L-R, Craig Sherwood, Cullen Doms, and Rich Gudmunsen taking the storm in.

Cell starts to die and move off into the lakes area and bad chase territory.  What a storm!  Nearly 3 hours on the same cell.

Video grab of the mammatus on the way home on the Douglas/Todd county line.

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