A Blip in a Quiet Season

Eastern Iowa, and more specifically the Cedar Rapids metro area has been abnormally quiet when it comes to severe weather thus far in 2025. So even though some non-severe storms moved through the area on Tuesday, June 3, I was ready with my camera. The above image looks northeast as seen from the Lowe Park ball diamond parking lot in Marion, Iowa at 4:27 pm CDT. The leading edge of the storm can be seen at right background as it passed overhead and toward the "two o'clock" position of this image.

4:29 pm. Looking southeast. Cloud movement here was right-to-left. This storm cell produced moderate amounts of lightning, wind and rain. Nikon Z6ii camera.

This Radarscope image from 4:26 pm shows the line of non-severe storms, with my position indicated by a white target icon. Some isolated tornado-warned areas near Mount Pleasant and Burlington in southeastern Iowa did form from this system.

4:31 pm. Radarscope reflectivity (top) and velocity images.