QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 8, 2005 -> 02:51 PM)
When I was there, we had this bright sunny late spring day. (not exactly prime Tornado time in Iowa) I remember that I was apartment hunting, and as I drove back to my dorm I could see a nasty storm on the horizon to the west. By the time I parked, and got up to my floor to alert my freinds to look at the cool storm, a funnel cloud had formed. It was still bright and sunny where we were, but you could see this nasty tornado only about 2 miles away.
It never got to us. It climbed back up into the cloud, but we did see some huge hail and about 5 minutes of really crazy weather.
When I looked outside the clouds had dropped to about the top of MWL......that level at least just east of the power plant. It looked more ragged than anything but I must have missed it dropping down. Then it looked like a hurricane out there.
What is it with this county and the messed up storms?