July 19th 2003 Stearns County Minnesota

Wall cloud on the east side of the cell.  Chasers in Holdingford, MN getting cored by hail at this point.  See Meredith Lindrud's chase account for more info.

This was one of the strangest storms I have ever chased.  Moved almost straight south.  Take north of St. Anna looking north.

Notice the infow coming in from the east.  Not much for rotation but very persistent.  Cell is about to go torn warned.

I heard a report of this appendage under the wall as a funnel but was nothing more than rising scud.  No rotation was noted.

Inflow tail just screaming in from the east.  Small hail and 30kt inflow winds were making it interesting at this point.

Wall goes over us north of Avon, MN.  Rich Gudmunsen and Theresa Caspers have some awesome video of this shot from the south.

North of New Richmond now.  Still persistent, still on the south east side of the cell.  Strange indeed.

Looking to the west as cell starts to take on a more traditional linear-shelf look to it as it continues to dive to the south.

After a few quick words of greeting with Scott Woelm and Shaun Kelly, continued south as the cell passes over New Richmond.  Followed the cell south into Meeker county where another torn warning was issued for Meeker with rotation near Cedar Mills.  Tadd Paris has a shot of the funnel on his site. This also ended up the last real chase of the year up here.  How fitting the oddest storm would be the last.

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