Take Cover!

Dry conditions at Fay Clark Park in Hiawatha, Iowa were soon to change as a gust front quickly advanced on the location just after noon on Friday, June 18, 2010. Rain, high winds and lightning ensued as the front blew through. This was the first of two storm fronts affecting the Cedar Rapids metro area on this day--the other arriving in the evening. Note the well-defined layers in the approaching shelf cloud in this view looking northwest.