Mild Storms but Good Visuals

Storms neared the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area just after 3:00 pm on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The storms were below severe limits, but still had enough aesthetic quality to be photographed. Above, storm clouds gather behind Bowman Woods Elementary School in Bowman Woods Park at 3:15 pm CDT. This image looks west.

3:20 pm. Even better to the northwest and north were mammatus formations, seen along the anvil. The storm was about 25 miles distant. Views like this one begged for a panoramic capture!

3:20 pm. Zoomed-in view of the mammatus area.

Radar view (for 3:20 pm) showing my location (target icon) and the location of the storm.

3:24 pm. Similar panoramic view.

Around 5:50 pm a storm cell located near the town of Decorah in northeast Iowa was moving SSE and became severe-warned. The warning would only last about 25 minutes, but the storm retained a nice appearance. This view looks north at the storm at 6:42 pm from Eastview Avenue at Irish Drive in Marion, Iowa. Its most intense area (left) was about 53 miles distant, near Fayette in Fayette County Iowa. Nikon D7200 DSLR.

Closely corresponding radar reflection to that of the image above it, showing my position and the position of the stated area of intensity.