Early Rising Storms

I was vaulted out of bed early Saturday morning, June 22, 2013 by the alarm of my weather radio. As I took up a spotter position for the incoming severe weather at Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, these were some of the images I captured. At top, low hanging clouds drift toward the right just before 7:00 AM. In the distance is Pin Tail Drive NE and in the foreground is 74th Street NE. In the second and third images, an intense area of the storm is shown moving away to the east around 7:15 AM with C Avenue NE in the background. The storm system, of which these images were part of, stretched from Iowa County in Iowa upward to southwest Wisconsin.