June 7th North Central Iowa

A nearly stationay boundary set up through the northern counties of Iowa producing a family of tornadic supercells

First wall cloud passing just north of Northwood IA. No rotation yet but the cascading RFD was fun to watch.

Large RFD cut trying to occlude the wall cloud  looking north from northeast of Northwood IA

Looking northeast towards Austin, MN at distant funnel

Surprisingly nice structure in Worth county Iowa

Beastly wall cloud with clear slot trying to work around the back side near Northwood IA

This was about the closest this cell came to producing over Northwood as it wraps up briefly

Storm begins to cycle as it goes outflow dominant

Shelf cloud gusts out east of Northwood Iowa

Slowly rotating lowering on the third tornado warned storm near St. Ansgar Iowa

Brief condensation funnel wrapped in rain near St. Ansgar Iowa

Very weak wall cloud passing to the north of Mason City Iowa on the fouth tornado warned storm of the day

Cold outflow begins to rapidy rip the cell apart

Cell dies a cold outflow death northeast of the Mason City Iowa airport

Whales mouth linear updraft area near Mason City Iowa as I call it a day

Video #2 Brief weak tornado partially rain wrapped

Video #3 Fun  time lapse of linear updraft / downdraft

Video #1 Brief weak tornado partially rain wrapped

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