July 19th 2003                                 Data: Click here for data images

Stearns County, Minnesota:  Jeff Baumgartner and Tadd Parris

Partly cloudy day nice and humid in the early afternoon which would lead to the development in the afternoon.  The first storms developed 30 miles northwest of St. Cloud, MN and tracked to the south.  Jeff Baumgartner was already out the door and on his way to the storm he arrived neat Avon and waited.  Tadd Parris was at home and saw what was happening on the computer and left right away.

Wall cloud 5 miles north of Avon, Minnesota.  Notice the stiarations on the updraft and the beaver tail to the right.	Wall cloud getting stronger and hail shaft visible on left side.  Storm was moving to the south at 10 mph.

Tightening wall cloud moving south. Notice the hail shaft starting to fall on the wall cloud but besides that the storm looked incredible and nearly dropped a tornado.	As the wall cloud continued moving it eventually beat out the rain and hail falling on it as it did rotation picked up.

New wall cloud near Avon nearly touching the ground.  This was associated with the same storm but more to the east.	Wall cloud picking up strength as it crossed right in front of Jeff Baumgartner.

Wall cloud moving south still losing most of its punch but still a wall cloud.	New storm developing south of Jeff near Cosmos.

Shelf Cloud near Richmond moving south right in my path.	Rotating scud motion over Richmond this was happening frequently.

New storm  near Watkins moving south.	Funnel Cloud near Cosmos, Minnesota