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May 8th, 2004 Dallas County, Iowa Tornadic Supercells

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This day took me to Iowa for high based supercells. The set up wasn't ideal with only low to mid 50's dewpoints with temps in the mid 80's. By mid afternoon convergence along a west/east oriented boundary would be the focal point for severe thunderstorms where moisture pooled along the boundary. Storms fired in Green county and back built and moved southeast into Dallas county. This storm produced 2" diameter hail and had decent structure. During its first cycle, it produced a weak tornado for about 1 minute. Later when it went HP, it had a very nice rotating wall cloud. Finally it lined out around 9:30 PM and moved south of Des Moines.

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Rotating wall cloud with initial cell.
Weak tornado with debris cloud on the ground.
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Looking southwest at the rain and hail foot on the second storm.
Rapidly rotating wall cloud!!!
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Wall cloud wraps with rain as tail cloud forms.
Large amounts of golf ball sized hail on the ground.

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