Tom Bailey
06/06/2006 07:46 PM

��Hi,

��Here is a picture I took this afternoon. I was north of Winterset
and had
been watching the low clouds to the southeast. Then I noticed that
one
cloud had sent a chimney like column of wispy material straight up.
Within
minutes, it was three times higher than the rest of the clouds. Then
the
cloud started churning and boiling higher and higher with a little
bit of
wispy cloud always present around the top. Finally, it formed into
the
classic anvil shape of a good old Iowa thunderstorm. I had to pull
over and
take this picture of it over the North River Valley. Just as I took
the
picture, the radio announced that there was a tornado on the ground
east of
Sigourney. This is a view of that tornado producing cell from central
Iowa
looking to the southeast.