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^ NIce pics Hawkeye, thanks for sharing!

New guy came in at 20z and was like nah, and hacked 100 miles of the north section off out your way.

Nope, copy and paste.

Definitely will see a nice recovery later today, but as many have mentioned the cap remains the biggest issue. A lot of the guidance is popping off convection by early eve, so I'm leaning towards there being at least scattered activity like Hoosier mentioned. The substantial plume of steep mid-level lapse rates is very nice to see.

That pic reminds me of the movie The Burbs with Tom Hanks. Next door neighbor had basically no grass, and had that extreme contrast going from Hank's yard to that one.

On the plus side the dandelions appear to be thriving.

Extremely impressive vids. The aftermath videos showing huge amounts of tree debris in front of literally every residence is amazing as well. These vids were shot on Pine Wood Drive NE in northern Cedar Rapids, pretty close to Hiawatha. The church losing it's roof is River of Life Church. Church viewed from the northwest side.

Pretty sweet sunrise out back this morning. Won't be mowing for awhile though.

Man, we just can't buy a decent storm around here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness was hoping we could get a decent rain out of this event. There is a cell heading this way, but the overall trend is naso good.

This August mini-drought has been enough to decimate an aggressive onslaught of July crab grass in my yard, so I guess that's a plus lol. 0.72" for Aug here.

Not bad. It's 150 mph right now, but wouldn't be surprised to see 160 mph upgrade post landfall to a cat 5.

This video is pretty incredible. Might rank up there with the pine tree video. Near the end siding is ripping off the garage he's shooting the video out of.

I'll go Sabine Pass @165 mph. It is 2020 you know.

Nothing's gonna compare to the pine tree vid, but these two are pretty good.

Glad things are getting more back to normal there. Definitely a pain in the ass to be sure. Found the location the infamous falling pine tree derecho vid was shot at in Cedar Rapids. It's on Greenfield Street just west of C Ave. This looking back towards the house where vid was captured.

DVN made a correction to their peak gust there at DVN, from 86 to 87 mph.

I passed through Clinton Iowa/Fulton IL on Monday. Definitely not surprised to see that local area of higher wind estimate pop up as it was pretty bad. I also came across a huge grain silo a little west of Elvira that was caved in quite severely. It's right in line with that corridor of highest winds, although the NWS has 80+mph there. I'll see if I can get that pic on here. EDIT: Here it is..

I'd like to know why the rear-inflow jet seemed to be basically at ground level. I know there's been instances of long-lasting high winds, but I think that is usually over a smaller swath closer to the parent mesovortex. I read somewhere that this almost seemed comparable to an HP supercell with a powerful RFD. In this case the RFD was extremely large. We didn't get the extreme of Cedar Rapids, but I'll never forget the 1hr+ of non-stop severe level winds.

Yeah I've never seen anything higher than 80 mph in person, so it's sort of a guessing game above that for me.

That gust at 16:15 is just incredible. That had to be over 100mph. I've watched that part of the vid numerous times and the gust hits so hard it almost sends chills down my spine.

Definitely lucked out. Don't wanna see anything that super crazy ever IMBY.

Amazing. New info from the DVN page.. A swath of damage from Benton County, through portions of Linn, Jones, and Cedar Counties, is consistent with intermittent winds in the 110-130 mph range. A radio transmission tower north of Marion, Iowa in Linn County collapsed, due to straight line winds estimated around 130 mph. This speed would be equivalent to a strong EF2 tornado. The maximum measured wind gust was 112 mph at Midway, Iowa in Linn County. One storm-related fatality has been reported so far. That area where 130 mph winds were estimated north of Marion is right where the highest velocities showed up on that radar time lapse I made the other day. So it was actually even worse just north of Cedar Rapids. If that would have moved through the heart of CR things could have been even worse, which is pretty crazy to think about.