[Claire Parrott]

Thank you all so much! This is really interesting, and requires me to re-examine my own definition of a “wall” cloud. Appreciate your help and enthusiasm…my dad, who spotted the cloud, e-mailed back and forth with our local weather service station, but they weren’t as excited as we were. It’s wonderful to get such engaged responses, and to learn a little more about this formation.

[Claire Parrott]

Ahh, great finds, Hans–very cool to see this from other angles! No tornado, but there was a destructive wind later associated with this storm, which was headed to the NE. My dad spotted the cloud at Johnson Creek, and the destruction, associated with the straight-line wind, happened somewhere south of Watertown, within 15 miles of Johnson Creek.

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