Funnels, Tornadoes and Rotations

Pulled off the side of US Highway 34 about 3 1/4-miles southeast of Mount Pleasant in Henry
County, Iowa, my daughter and I witnessed the approach of a shelf cloud at 7:18 pm, Saturday,
June 20, 2015. This shelf cloud was not the same as the classic midwest mid-summer outflow
dominated storm. Several small rotating areas occurred on the leading edge of the shelf cloud, producing small and brief funnels (see circled area above). The image looks northwest.

The above image was captured along the highway about .8-mile closer to Mount Pleasant at 7:21 pm.
Direction is southwest. The right circled area is another brief scud-like funnel. Circled area at center was a big surprise. It shows a ghostly pencil shaped tornado, clearly on the ground. This was not visible to our naked eye and was not discovered until photo processing the next day.

This image is a vide frame capture a minute later. The pencil tornado would be located in the rain wrapped area at far left. The circled area above is a funnel hanging below a rotating wall cloud. Movement was right-to-left. At this point very strong inflow winds kicked up a flat piece of metal which caromed off our vehicle and was carried on into the wind toward the left of the picture. Top three images Nikon D5000 DSLR camera.

My windshield-mounted Go Pro Hero camera caught this funnel at 7:28 pm looking northwest, as the storm system continued to pass through.