4-18-04 PDS Tornado Box in Minnesota Stearns, Wright and Sherburne Counties

Buffalo to St Cloud to Elk River and back to Buffalo.  1 TOR warned cell, 4 SEV's and a nasty core punch on a squall line on the way home.

Developing base near St Cloud.

Just north of Clearwater Lake on the Stearns/Wright county line. This cell will go Doppler TOR warned about 10 minutes after this pic was taken.

Evidently this slight lowering and rotation on radar is will  trigger the TOR warning shortly.

Same feature about 2 minutes later.  Not really a well defined wall cloud, but the collar was cool.

Talk about high based!  Sheesh!  TOR warned cell now looking north.  Nice rain foot though.

Same photo with some contrast enhancement to show apparently a undercut high based wall cloud and the rain foot.

Linear SEV cell #1 north of Monticello.

Eric Whitehill called to let me know 1" hail was falling from this!  Great hail core!

Linear severe cell #3 near Rogers, MN

Linear severe cell #2 near Elk River with some nasty tree dowing winds.  No, I did not stay under the power lines!

Linear severe cell #4 near Maple Grove/Plymouth.  Great job by the SKYWARN spotters in the area not reporting this as a funnel cloud as all outflow!

No bugs on the windsheild after this nasty core punch on the way home! Heading west on 55.

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