Leftover Pics From July 3, 2025 Storm

FROM THE ARCHIVES: 

The 2025 severe weather season in Eastern Iowa was very quiet, without much to capture photographically. Therefore, the following are some leftover archived images not originally used on my website from that active day north of Cedar Rapids on Thursday evening, July 3, 2025. The image above looks north at 8:03 pm CDT while on Alburnett Road in Marion, Iowa, about one mile south of County Home Road. The (severe-warned) storm cell seen in the background was located about 30 miles distant, near the town of Independence in Buchanan County.

8:08 pm. An inflow cloud (warm air feeding into the storm) silhouettes itself in front of the setting sun, producing brilliant backlit rays. This image looks west while northbound on Highway 13, just north of County Home Road, near Marion, Iowa.

8:11 pm. Northbound on Highway 13, north of County Home Road. A low cloud base can be seen on the horizon at right.

8:13 pm. Dynamic looking inflow cloud feeds into severe-warned storm (right), which was located in southeastern Buchanan County. Image captured northbound on Highway 13 about 2 miles south of Central City in Linn County.

8:23 pm. Two inflow tail clouds converging into the storm, with a forming wall cloud at center. This image looks northwest from Highway 13, just east of Coggon, Iowa in Linn County and just west of Monticello Road.

8:26 pm. Northbound on Highway 13, just south of Ryan, Iowa in Delaware County. A funnel cloud has now formed from the wall cloud (behind trees at right). 

8:27 pm. Looking northeast at a funnel while eastbound on County Road D47 (310th Street), about .4-mile east of Highway 13 and about .6-mile southeast of the town of Ryan.

8:32 pm. Looking north from 190th Avenue, about .1-mile south of 295th Street, and about 3 miles northeast of Ryan in Delaware County. Behind the trees at center is Golden Church. The amazing illuminated inflow cloud stretches over the buildings, and feeds into a severe-warned storm (right), located about 8 miles to the northeast, near the town of Manchester.

8:32 pm. Similar image. 

8:32 pm. Similar image. A lot going on in this picture: Inflow cloud at left, cloud striations above center, two more inflow clouds at right, an RFD clear slot between them and a lowering beneath them. Nikon Z6ii camera.