Breathtaking Storm Cell

Sunday, June 28, 2015


This remarkable image is actually an Adobe Bridge photomerge of four separate vertically oriented images. The entire width of this structure could not be included in my camera's widest angle (18mm focal length) shooting landscape style, but it was also so immense it cut it off vertically! I was forced to shoot "portrait" style to include its depth. The most intense part of this storm cell was located about 70 miles to the west, at the Marion and Mahaska counties border in Iowa. The leading edge of the anvil was about half as far. Photo(s) shot from Yucca Avenue, a little over a mile east of Ainsworth, Iowa in Washington County at 5:28 pm CDT, Saturday, June 20, 2015. This storm would produce brief pinup tornadoes about two hours later in Henry County to the south. The bright area at upper left is the sun, obscured by the anvil.


Showing the sun a little more clearly in the anvil is the image above, captured at 5:27 pm. Nikon D5000 DSLR camera.


My onboard RadarScope view of the storm.

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