March 30th 2005

Chasers: Tadd Parris

Below are images of a tornado 10miles east of Clear Lake, Iowa.
This all started around the time of 1:39pm as a wall cloud rapidly developed.  Within moments a small tornado was over Hwy 18 about a half mile ahead.  The tornado lasted for 4 minutes as it moved to the north.  At times the tornado was picking up tree branches and dirt, other times it was a faint column of dust.

I will later write more and provide links to a few other chasers that I had the pleasure of joining.  Enjoy the images : )

Other Chaser accounts.  

View the video clip which is a combination of 3 videos taken Copyright Andrew Revering, Beau Gjerdingen & Joel Lampe. This video clip was put together by Doug Kiesling and courtesey of BNVN & Weathervine.com.

1:50pm last look at the tornado as it moved north. 2:23pm  A look at the updraft as the storm moved into Minnesota.