Ben Engle
EF1
Well, Let's hear them people.
My day started off at about 1300CST by heading to Williamsburg, IA to try and intercept a couple cells that were producing tornado warnings to the SW of Williamsburg. Sitting looking at radar, I realized that today wasn't going to be as fun as I thought. I headed back to the Cedar Rapids area just intime to intercept an interesting cloud formation just north of Toddville, IA. It had a pretty impressive lowering, some funky scud, and about 60 seconds of hard rain. To tell the truth, that was the most exciting thing I saw all day. For the next couple hours, I followed a few small svr and/or tornado warned cells around Linn and Jones counties to report to the EOC. Lisbon, IA Fire was reporting several rotating funnels at their location, I went to check those out and in my eyes, they seemed to be low scud lowering and raising. Also fairly un-impressive. I only got one picture and haven't downloaded it yet, but it's no Picasso for sure.
I'd hope that the sunshine that's following these previous boring storms will help keep the heating up a little but, but I think that's wishful thinking at this point.
The one interesting thing I do have to report is that I saw some wanna-be twister chaser driving this crappy white oldsmobile with a magnet mount CB antenna. I pulled behind them in Mount Vernon, IA and they were blasting through parking lots trying to beat some 'traffic'. I was following the same cell they were, but in true twister style, they attempted an amatuer gravel slide onto a gravel road to get Dorothy closer to some lame scud clouds and rain, and slid right off the road and over a stop sign right infront of me. Local Johnny Law was listening to our EOC on his radio and heard me call the vehicle in the ditch in and responded. Dumbasses. Makes me glad I can still appear professional, even without knowing 1% of what some of you guys know. And somehow, I still stay safe and on the road.
My day started off at about 1300CST by heading to Williamsburg, IA to try and intercept a couple cells that were producing tornado warnings to the SW of Williamsburg. Sitting looking at radar, I realized that today wasn't going to be as fun as I thought. I headed back to the Cedar Rapids area just intime to intercept an interesting cloud formation just north of Toddville, IA. It had a pretty impressive lowering, some funky scud, and about 60 seconds of hard rain. To tell the truth, that was the most exciting thing I saw all day. For the next couple hours, I followed a few small svr and/or tornado warned cells around Linn and Jones counties to report to the EOC. Lisbon, IA Fire was reporting several rotating funnels at their location, I went to check those out and in my eyes, they seemed to be low scud lowering and raising. Also fairly un-impressive. I only got one picture and haven't downloaded it yet, but it's no Picasso for sure.
I'd hope that the sunshine that's following these previous boring storms will help keep the heating up a little but, but I think that's wishful thinking at this point.
The one interesting thing I do have to report is that I saw some wanna-be twister chaser driving this crappy white oldsmobile with a magnet mount CB antenna. I pulled behind them in Mount Vernon, IA and they were blasting through parking lots trying to beat some 'traffic'. I was following the same cell they were, but in true twister style, they attempted an amatuer gravel slide onto a gravel road to get Dorothy closer to some lame scud clouds and rain, and slid right off the road and over a stop sign right infront of me. Local Johnny Law was listening to our EOC on his radio and heard me call the vehicle in the ditch in and responded. Dumbasses. Makes me glad I can still appear professional, even without knowing 1% of what some of you guys know. And somehow, I still stay safe and on the road.