Initially was thinking Rochelle-Sterling area would be the place to be. So we set off west toward I 39 on I 80. When we got to La Salle, decided to continue west and stopped in Princeton, IL for lunch and gas. Upon eating there, the storms in IA started getting TOR warned. I didn't commit to anything as of yet because I was hoping discrete cells near Quincy would keep heading NE at my location. Finally as a few confirmed tornadoes started coming across the live coverage from Iowa City, I said the hell with it and darted west along 80. Got to the river and noticed a very dark sky to the SW -W - NW. Got to the Eldridge. IA and had to decide whether to dip down on I-280 for the Muscatine Cell or up 61 to the New Liberty storm. Thought we could get the northern cell, and be in position to intercept the southern storm near Clinton, IA.
Above picture was taken from Dewitt, IA on US 30 as the now garbage tornado warned supercell continued north of us. Ragged left overs of what was tornadic wall cloud from De Witt, IA.
We kept heading west on US 30 through Clinton, IA, and Morrison, IL, until we met up with Adam Lucio, Matt Fischer and Dan Hobson in Rock Falls, IL. As Adam said previously we grabbed a bite to eat and such and saw that this interesting feature.
Notice how outflow-y it looked.
Here is the feature of interest. It is a good lookalike if not truly a funnel.
0610 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 5 N ROCK FALLS 41.84N 89.71W
04/25/2008 WHITESIDE IL PUBLIC
REPORTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF IL HWY 40 AND FULFS RD.
RELAYED BY ILLINOIS STATE PATROL.
Report at the time of the picture from NWS DVN.
Overall it was a decent chase, got cored 4 different times from non-severe storms on the way home with some small hail and what not.
http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o124/ILSvrWxTorChsr/04%2025%2008%20IL%20and%20IA%20Supercells/ More pictures here.
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