RFD pictures 5-10-05 SW IA

[Doug Raflik]

Was going through some older pictures and came across some good examples of RFD cutting into some updrafts. These were taken May 11th, 2006 in SW Iowa. This was the day most people were chasing the beast that was in SE NE.

Here is a shallow, rotating wall cloud with some scud rising into the center of it...

4 minutes later you see an RFD slicing into the updraft...

 

[Doug Raflik]

Its 5-10-05. Dont know how to change the title. If I even can. Mods???

 

[Josh Richardson]

Yeah, sorry after looking at reports I figured it out and deleted the old message. Mods would have to change the date of the thread.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Asome pictures Doug!

 

[Brian Stertz]

Here's the same updraft area near Audubon from a different angle. Nice pics Doug...this was quite the supercell as it drifted along north of I-80 on 5/10/05.

 

[scott r currens]

Well, I guess everyone wasn't on the beast in Nebraska.

 

[Bobby Eddins]

Here's my best example of RFD.
North Texas March 17, 2003

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Timelapse of same
http://chaseone.com/March17_2003_TL01x125.mpg

 

[Dick McGowan]

Mike Johnston and I were on the SW IA storm in 2005 as well.

RFD across the road 1-2 m. E of Kimballton

 

[Dan Robinson]

April 25, 2007 near Springfield, MO

 

[Jody Radzik]

Question: RFD or inflow notch?

 

[Mike Peregrine]

lol - was on this one too ... reading this thread, you'd think more people ended up on this storm than in Grand Island that day. The RFD kicked up some serious dust that evening. Cool photos -

 

[afischer]

Best RFD shots:
05/04/03 Kansas City KS
04/11/05 Washington KS
04/21/05 Tobias NE
05/07/05 Shelton NE

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

lol - was on this one too ... reading this thread, you'd think more people ended up on this storm than in Grand Island that day. The RFD kicked up some serious dust that evening. Cool photos -

We were on the Grand Island storm, and I clearly remember when I showed Steve, Randy and JB the sw IA storm on radar. I think Randy's quote was "Awww ****". We half figured we were missing the best storm of the day(this was as the GI storm was just getting going). Then of course there were all the sheriff-nado reports coming out of something sw of the GI storm. We figured we were missing something there too, all while the big machine unfolded before us.

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

All nice RFD pictures!! Did that storm go on to produce any tornadoes? By far the most impressive RFD I have ever witnessed was just this past year on the Tulia storm. The storm went from just your normal big rotating Meso to a nasty quickly spinning grungy wall cloud with torando in a matter of a couple minutes, it was nearly jaw dropping to sit there and have it unfold right in front of us.

I put up a pretty short but interesting video on youtube of the RFD in progress, RFD fans should enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byym59xE13k

 

[Chris C Sanner]

All nice RFD pictures!! Did that storm go on to produce any tornadoes? By far the most impressive RFD I have ever witnessed was just this past year on the Tulia storm. The storm went from just your normal big rotating Meso to a nasty quickly spinning grungy wall cloud with torando in a matter of a couple minutes, it was nearly jaw dropping to sit there and have it unfold right in front of us.

I put up a pretty short but interesting video on youtube of the RFD in progress, RFD fans should enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byym59xE13k

Great vid Dustin! That's what an RFD is definitely all about! How fast was the timelapse for the video on average?