Had to shoot off a tripod from here on as it was getting dark and I didn't want to go to a lower f stop and loose the depth of field.  Taken from between St. Martin and  Farming, MN in Stearns county.

Even though the cell held a nice velocity couplet and even had a TVS for a bit, it never did look like a tornado threat.  Just hail as Doug Kiesling found out.  I'll post a link to his video once he has it on line.

This is the action area where the velocity couplet is.  Lots of rising scud and that was about it for now.

The storm is over Cold Spring, MN now and has a lot of rising motion along the edge of the meso on the inside of the hook but not much for spin.

This is about the time when the spotters were having issues identifying what they were seeing.  They kept reporting a shelf cloud with  a squall line when in fact it is a striated HP supercell.   The radar image would clearly have told them this was not a linear storm.  Not sure what else to say about this.

The cell quicky weakened as it approached the St. Cloud, MN area but not before giving a pretty decent light show with it's last gasp.

As the fog started to set in, I decided to call it a night and head for home...or so I thought.  CHECK OUT THE PICS FROM THE EARLY MORNING SEVERE STORM ON JUNE 19TH HERE!

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