Tornado Link

Storm chaser Bryce Link (lower left in both images) shoots video with his digital camera of a wedge tornado to our north as we sped eastward along County Highway E16 at (and then just east of) 130th Street, about 8.5 miles east of Mapleton, Iowa. These video frame capture images were taken around 7:48 PM, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Link was an Iowa State University meteorology student. Also aboard the chase vehicle was Ryan Alliss (driver and leader), Ethan Milius (navigator and info gatherer), and myself as "expedition photographer and videographer." Link also drew info from his laptop.