Tamer Storm Cousin

Clouds roll in from the west in this five-second exposure (f/6.3, ISO of 200) at Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 12:20 AM on June 18, 2010. This narrow storm front was the trailing southern extension of a larger and much more powerful system that produced some 82 tornadoes, four of which were rated at EF4, in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota the previous evening (June 17). The swiftly approaching storm in this photo produced nothing more than some brief heavy rain and wind.