Reports June 21, 2007 IA

[Josh Richardson]

Targeted Algona IA for initation yesterday along the OFB and thats right where it started. This area of initiation quickly formed two cells with supercell characteristics but figured the southern would end up taking over so dropped down to that one followed through half of Hancock Co. Persistent but weak rotation was evident on this one with some decent attempts at a nice wall cloud early in the show but after about 8 miles of travel it started to become outflowish. Early on in the storm I thought it was going to tornado but never could quite do it. In the meantime the Southwest Cerro Gordo cell(became the Waterloo TOR warned cell) was visible from birth during our chase of the Hancock cell as well and we ended going back south to split right in between the line of storms that started at Kossuth CO. and dropped into Wright Co. and the Cerro Gordo cell. Anyway, during driving between those two points of interest we had decided to go after the Wright Co. cell(the southern cell in the line) as it was starting to take on the most supercellular characteristics and golfballs to baseballs had now been reported. After finally starting to get into position very near Clarion IA it too started to line out and just become outflowish and we apparently just missed the brief touchdown between Eagle Grove and Clarion. Started to head towards Hamilton and Story Co. cells after that but decided it was all lining out and just headed home.

I will add pics this weekend.