Last Wave Of Storms Coming In

The funnel had disappeared minutes ago, but the heavy moisture-laden air it spawned from was creating bizarre cloud formations on the leading edge of an approaching line of severe storms on the evening of August 4, 2016. The hand-like formation seen above looking north at Oliver Court in Marion, Iowa at 7:39 pm CDT is an example of that. 

And then a shelf cloud from the anticipated gust front finally showed itself. Above, the approaching ominous-looking shelf cloud hangs low on the western horizon as seen from Oliver Court at 7:48 pm. In its path are homes in the Bowman Meadows housing development.

Stretching from the northwest (left) to the northeast sky is this panoramic view of the shelf cloud at 7:48 pm. Air and dew temperatures were identical at 72 degrees, humidity was at 100%. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.