Here is the short version of our chase yesterday, Kenny and I started heading out towards the Waterloo area and after sitting in Bremer Co. had made the decision to commit to a decent tower shooting up near Floyd IA back in Floyd Co.* This tower shot up extremely fast and didnt hardly move for a while as the storm continued to strengthen but was fairly high-based.* As this storm continued SSE at a pace of around 15 mph it continued to become more surface based while tops also growed to near 60,000ft.
Again, the short version is the storm wrapped pretty nice as it moved SE towards the Waterloo area as it neared the more enhanced 0-1 km SRH noted across eastern central IA.* Low level rotation was pretty weak throughout most of the storms life but we did encounter very large hail near New Hartford with up to baseball sized there and then again down by Hudson with this time calling in softball sized hail.* The van definitely took some big hits and we somehow managed to not lose our windows.
All in all pretty enjoyable chase as the road networks stayed in our favor and we stayed directly under the SW edge of the storm throughout its life until it became more shelfy SW of Waterloo.*
Here are just a few pics, unfortunately I couldnt get pics of the hail.* We should have that on the dash cam so I will add that later on...
7/16/07 Reports: IA 
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