August 26th North Central Iowa Humboldt, Wright, and Boone Counties

Explosive development near Ft. Dodge, IA looking to the northwest.  Cell is near Pocahontas at this time.

Meso with extremely low base at Humboldt, IA.

Entering Humboldt, IA from the south.

I only included this pic to point some things out.  Look on either side of the yield sign and just over the roof tops.  Now that is LOW!

Looking south at Humboldt at the left side of the meso away from the action area.

Extremely low base coming overhead with rapidly intensifying rotation.  Time to call in the report.

Looking north at the tail feeding into the wall cloud just about directly over head.  TVS on radar now for this exact point.

Brief funnel looking south as it tracks rapidly from SW to NE in front of us.  Surface winds rotated from SE to E to N to W as this passed from right to left.

Wild rotation as action area moves east.

Large funnel?  NO!!  This is scud from cold outflow looking to the NW as cell loses it's tornadic traits.

Wall cloud!  Right?  NO!  Cold NW winds blowing at me.  Going outflow dominant as shelf is forming.  Cell still is registering a meso signature but obviously no tornadic threat at this time.

Looking north at the underside of the rounded base.  The cell elevates and starts to die.

Lightning as traffic zips by in Ames, IA as we call it a night at Subway.

Lightning illuminates the tower of a severe cell east of Des Moines nearly 90 miles away to our south!

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