Jesse Risley
Staff member
I chased with @Kholby Martin and @Ethan Schisler. We originally targeted the Dubuque, IA area but then noticed more robust. Convection was initiating near the boundary in the mid-afternoon southwest of Waterloo which is where we originally from accepted the first supercell. It underwent several mergens before becoming tornadic near Independence where the first touchdown tore a roof off an implement building 100 ft away from me. We repositioned and saw another brief tornado just south of Winthrop, IA. I did not have enough time to get any still shots of these but did get some video of the brief tornado south of Winthrop. The cell continued to struggle but did produce a tornado that some saw west of Manchester but we bailed when the whole cluster was becoming more clustered. We noticed a cell on the southern flank had gone tornado warned north of Fairfield so we bolted down there just in time to see the wall cloud produce a funnel that treated us to a nice tornado for about 5 minutes near Onslow, Iowa.
