Name that date - 2009/2010 edition - #1
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Kevin Walters
EF2
There have been several violent long track tornadoes in that part of Iowa over the years. Waterloo and Cedar Falls have been lucky twice in the last few years avoiding destructive tornadoes.
Scott Weberpal
EF5
There have been numerous tornado outbreaks within 50 miles of Waterloo in the last 10 years (I have each date linked to the SPC reports)...
5/11/00, 6/1/01, 05/21/04, 05/25/08, and 06/21/09. There were also some tornadoes along the IA/MN border and out toward Fort Dodge on 6/11/04 that are just outside the 50 mile bubble.
And everyone thinks Iowa sucks!
Andrew Pritchard
EF5
Oh certainly Iowa can be a prolific tornado producer... especially in late May and early June! It's just an ass towards storm chasers and anyone else who would like to witness it's displays.
Jeremy Den Hartog
I like chasing in Iowa - I suppose partly because its close for me and its relatively familiar (I have family in Iowa). My biggest day so far was 6-21-09 in Iowa where we saw at least 4 tornadoes (including the Dike one up close and personal)...but all of them were relatively weak (EF1 was the strongest if I remember right) but it was still a good day..
Jeremy Den Hartog
This one will probably be easy but oh well (maybe the zoom level will make it harder though). This is what the storm looked like on radar when we first got on it (it was not tornado warned initially).
And this is what it looked like in person (note this storm never did produce a tornado but had very good structure)...
And this is what it looked like in person (note this storm never did produce a tornado but had very good structure)...
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Kevin Walters
EF2
Do you mean law enforcement or locals?
Jeremy Den Hartog
I *think* he's referring to the storms themselves or maybe even the terrain...in other words it seems to me he's referring to having bad luck in Iowa (I could be wrong though)
Jeremy Den Hartog
No guesses yet so here is a hint...
Not the main storm in the radar image I provided but a secondary storm developed just south east of the main storm (you can see this new storm in the bottom right corner of the radar image I provided as the storm was just starting to develop). This new storm produced many reports of baseball, softball and even grape fruit sized hail after it crossed one of the main rivers in the United States.
Not the main storm in the radar image I provided but a secondary storm developed just south east of the main storm (you can see this new storm in the bottom right corner of the radar image I provided as the storm was just starting to develop). This new storm produced many reports of baseball, softball and even grape fruit sized hail after it crossed one of the main rivers in the United States.
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That looks like June 7th, 2009 in SE NE. Nice structure shot.
Chad Cowan
EF5
That's it for sure. Even though I stayed on the southern storm for the entirety the way this updraft is tilted over makes it look exactly alike.
Jeremy Den Hartog
Ding ding ding, yep it was June 7th, 2009
Yeah that first storm was a beauty initially. It was a hailer, too. I was chasing with TWISTEX then and it sent 2" hailstones our way. We drove into it about 10 seconds then whipped around and drove back out but it was too late for the car I was driving - we lost our windshield.
Jeremy Den Hartog
Yep it was a beauty and it seemed so very close to producing a tornado but no luck. That sucks about your windshield - I'm guessing lost windshields were pretty common for the day but we manged to luck out and stay out of the monster hail...
Connor McCrorey
EF3
Yeah, that was a pretty easy one in my opinion. The photo helped though, and that hint just gave it away. That sure was a beast of a supercell...
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