4/9/2011 Early Iowa Tornado Video Still

I’m finally going through all of my video from the 4/9/2011 chase in Iowa and here is a screen grab off the HD dash camera when it was in night shot mode.

I was driving north towards the town of Early, Iowa for this tornado late after dark…  The tornado was back lit by lightning  and without the lightning nobody could have seen this coming.

This was one of the dozen tornadoes that I saw on that day.  It is kind of easy to get a dozen tornadoes when the thing was dropping two at the same time several times during the overnight storm track to the east north east.

4/9/2011 Tornado near Early, Iowa after dark © Doug Kiesling