June 27 Meeker County Minnesota

If you don't go, you won't get to see it!  The following stills were shot by my 6 year old son Cullen.

Southwest of Eden Valley, MN looking to the north east .

Same location looking to the north.

Looking to the northwest at a second cell from the same location near Eden Valley.  All I'm going to refer to the lowered area from here on is an "area of interest".

Same area of interest as we head west.  Note suspicious clearing cutting in from the left side.

Looking back to the east at the first  cell as the shelf goes overhead.

Back to the second cell to the west.  Lots of vertical motion in the center and in the "tail cloud".

Further south near Manannah, MN looking back at cell #1 to the east.

Looking back west.  Tons of vertical motion still but el zippo for rotation..for now.

Now this is very interesting.  This feature is coming off the lowering  pictured above as it passes overhead,  Note scud tags directly under it as well.

Are you sure you are seeing what you see?  So far I have seen a suspicious lowering with a tail and lots of rising motion into one area pretty consistently.

A couple of minutes later it becomes a pencil funnel like thingy.  Should I call it in?

Still there.

Congratulations!  You have just witnessed the lifecycle of a sharks tooth, one of the most mis-reported features  of an outflow dominated storm.  In the words of Scott Woelm, S.A.W.  Make the right call.

Rainbow over the lake by our house to end the day.  We went, we saw it.

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