Chance Encounter

The western flank of the powerful storm system that produced an EF5 tornado in Parkersburg, Iowa an hour and a half earlier is spread out on the southern horizon along US Highway 218 just south of the US Highway 18 interchange and northwest of Charles City, Iowa. Photo was captured around 6:30 PM, May 25, 2008. The encounter with the back end of this system was not a product of a storm chase but a return from a fishing trip in northeast Minnesota.