Twin Pop-Ups

Isolated thunderstorms popped up in southeast Iowa on the evening of Friday, July 19, 2013. Two notable storm cells are shown above. The left storm in the top image was located about 70 miles away in SE Cedar County and SW Scott County in Iowa. It is shown at right on the radar image below. The right cell in the top image was about 50 miles distant in central Washington County and is shown at lower left in the radar image. The camera looks southeast from Archer Drive in the Bowman Meadows housing development in Marion, Iowa around 7:21 PM.