Admiring From Afar

This severe storm cell began firing up in Illinois just east of the Mississippi across the river from Camanche, Iowa around 6:20 pm CDT, Wednesday, June 22, 2016. The image above reveals its appearance at 6:51 pm, looking southeast from along C Avenue and just south of Echo Hill Road north of Marion, Iowa.

Another view from the same location but a minute later. A very strong overshooting top can now be seen peeking over the edge of the anvil at center.

6:54 pm and looking southeast from Echo Hill Presbyterian Church just a little south from the above two image locations. The area of the overshooting top, located about 100 miles distant near Sterling, Illinois, can be seen in the right circled area of the radar screen capture below. The billowing cumulus tower above right is the left circled area on the radar screen image. Over a half-dozen tornadoes were spawned from this system. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.