Bowman Meadows Storm Cell

A line of visually impressive looking storm clouds stretch across the south and east sky (top) around 7:48 PM, Friday, May 11, 2012 as seen from the Bowman Meadows housing development site in Marion, Iowa. The isolated storm cell is also shown in a radar image (bottom), with the yellow dot and arrow pointing from the camera's location to the middle of the top image.  The cell generated brief mammatus and produced rain (a rain shaft can be seen below it), but no audible thunder was heard from the Bowman Meadows location. Bowman Meadows is a former farm field being developed into single family dwellings just south of Boyson Road and east of Cedar Rapids. This storm cell skirted south of Cedar Rapids, leaving it untouched.