Distant Storm Cells

This storm cell on the evening of Sunday, May 11, 2014 still appeared impressive even at a long distance from the camera--in this case located on Archer Drive in the new Bowman Meadows housing development in Marion, Iowa. Both images shown above look southeast. The top image, which includes a nearly full moon, looks toward the storm system when it was about 100 miles distant near Ottawa, Illinois and was captured at 7:22 PM CDT. The system had earlier produced tornado warnings as it proceeded east in southern Iowa. The bottom image was shot earlier--at 5:17 PM--when the system was about 75 miles away in Louisa County, Iowa.