Funnel Cloud Drifts Overhead

A funnel began to lower as a wall cloud passed over my position on 255th Street (County Highway D54), just west of Highway 13 in Delaware County, Iowa on Wednesday evening, June 12, 2013. The top image shows that position around 5:19 PM. Shortly thereafter the winds began to get strong, prompting me to move a quarter mile west to get out of "Harm's Way." The second and third images look NE after I had achieved a "safer" position on a field drive along 255th Street. Image two was captured at 5:21 PM, image three at 5:24 PM. Highway 13 is seen in the distance. The funnel was moving quickly away to the east. This location was about 4.5 miles north of the town of Ryan and about 4 miles south of Manchester, Iowa. This was the northern-most limit of my storm chase.