Oh my gosh that is so scary. Thank goodness nobody was hurt in this area. I can't believe a person took this from her front door.

From that same slideshow... my son did his freshman year of college across the street from this hospital:

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The path leading off the lower right corner of the pic is on the college grounds.

I don't get a tornado photo when I click the link. I've had several different photos, because I think new ones are being added to Yahoo's slideshow. Could you link the photo separately, via imageshack?

I was afraid that would happen so I did save the pic to PhotoBucket:

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AP Photo taken by Lori Mehman, Orchard, Iowa.

Holy crap!

It is a fantastic picture of a meso but there is no tornado. The low cloud is probably a shelf cloud. There was a rotating wall cloud with the storm but I don't think that is it and the storm never produced a funnel or tornado so that caption is just plain wrong. But yeah, the sort of amazingly beautiful structure that you always hope to see when you chase but rarely do.