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HP supercell101 viewsGood look at the structure of an HP supercell with wall cloud at the time it was dropping small rope tornadoes. If you zoom in and squint hard you can almost make out 2 very narrow ropes near the ground.
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Funnel cloud with RFD48 viewsLikely a funnel cloud from the major storm with an RFD cut coming around.
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Falsenado44 viewsNot a funnel cloud, but it did look menacing. Just scud.
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Gustnado?36 viewsWhat we thought was a landspout or gustnado at the leading edge of a storm turned out to be a smoke plume. Taken 6 May 08 from northeast Story County.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms42 viewsLooking West. Same cell. Rain wrapped.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms37 views
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms32 viewsZoomed shot looking West. The left part is the rain wrapped.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms40 viewsLooking pretty much straight West from the overpass of Highway H & I-35. What you see is all rain wrapped.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms35 viewsThis is a picture of the tornado warned super cell looking more SW.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms44 viewsNot sure exactly. I would call it a funnel since it was rotating. Needs to be compared against radar data. Sorry for the poor quality. It had to have of been half a mile from our position when it started to form. It was taken from the back window as we were speeding away.
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May 1st, 2008 - Ryan Lehms46 viewsLooking West near the Highway H overpass of I-35.
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may 1, 200840 viewscoming up on powerful storm, road is facing west.
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