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Severe Weather Threat April 1-4

Was on the "storm of the day" such as it was, when it appeared to peak on radar just south/southwest of Kalona. I see a couple of "OTG" reports, but no pictures.

From my view it had a pretty wet, low contrast rear flank with a mean-looking, ground scraping inflow band. Seems no good way to see anything unless you were right up on it.

Then couldn't make it back to the junction with 22 in time before getting cored. Never heard hail that loud. Have a few new dings on the Highlander. Fortunately nothing too crazy, and no damage to the glass.
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Was on the "storm of the day" such as it was, when it appeared to peak on radar just south/southwest of Kalona. I see a couple of "OTG" reports, but no pictures.

From my view it had a pretty wet, low contrast rear flank with a mean-looking, ground scraping inflow band. Seems no good way to see anything unless you were right up on it.

Then couldn't make it back to the junction with 22 in time before getting cored. Never heard hail that loud. Have a few new dings on the Highlander. Fortunately nothing too crazy, and no damage to the glass.
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From what I saw of the main storm, all tornadoes were poorly condensed and extremely weak. Making them pretty easy to miss, not that it really matters
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Was on the "storm of the day" such as it was, when it appeared to peak on radar just south/southwest of Kalona. I see a couple of "OTG" reports, but no pictures.

From my view it had a pretty wet, low contrast rear flank with a mean-looking, ground scraping inflow band. Seems no good way to see anything unless you were right up on it.

Then couldn't make it back to the junction with 22 in time before getting cored. Never heard hail that loud. Have a few new dings on the Highlander. Fortunately nothing too crazy, and no damage to the glass.
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Thanks for update and glad no glass gone. Wonder why that storm never took off fully after nudge but oh well
 
Also may have gotten a distant glimpse of this:

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21441 E Springdale Cedar IA41679125Rope tornado on the ground near X40 east of West Branch. (DVN)


My chase partner got a few pictures. We were heading north into West Liberty at the time, looking to the north-northwest. Then we actually ended up taking X40 north from there.

Actually looked a lot like the West Branch tornado from 3/31/23. Skinny rope usually not fully condensed, but may have had a debris cloud below the tip of it if you were close enough to see it.
 
Photo my chase partner just sent me of me taking video of the approaching supercell, at 150th St. & Larch Ave. south-southwest of Kalona. Inflow band to the right.

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Glad we didn't witness any egregiously bad driving like that. We were on I-80 for quite a while, since we gave up on the original supercell at that point and tried to play some of the cells in the eastern band which was already pushing into Illinois, and that was the only way we were going to have any chance at getting ahead of them at their speed.

Worst move I saw was actually from a cop, who flicked his lights on then immediately cut from the left lane all the way across to take a right exit, cutting off a car in the right lane by inches.
 
eep said:
The Illinois supercell near Round Grove that exploded for a little bit has reformed and looks healthy again.
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It failing to correctly react to a nudger was probably a bad omen for the setup tbh. Seems like some parameter (probably lapse rates) was poor enough to fail to materialize a tornado out of any of the many supercells we had today.
 
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