00:00What you're looking at here is just kind of a big cloud blob. I know that's not the meteorological
00:05term for it, but right now this is a non-tornadic severe thunderstorm. This is heading toward the
00:10Waterloo area with the potential for golf ball sized hail. This is going to take areas from
00:15Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Orange, just to the north of Hudson. So this is basically going to roll
00:21right through the heart of Cedar Falls and Waterloo with the potential for up to golf
00:26ball sized hail and some probably flooding downpours as well. Would not surprise me to
00:31see some street flooding, urban flooding as this storm rolls through. Again, the severe
00:34thunderstorm warning in effect here till 4.45 p.m. That does include, again, Cedar Falls and
00:41Waterloo. This looks very, very scary coming in from town. I know a lot of folks probably
00:45in the cities here looking at this very, very concerned, rightfully so. This is a big, low-hanging
00:51mass of clouds that you're seeing here on the camera. That right now does not appear tornadic.
00:57The storm earlier had some brief tornadic circulations in it, but kind of some storms
01:02formed near it and merged with it. So the storm's a little bit more disorganized now as opposed
01:07to what it was about 30 minutes ago. That is good news, at least for the time being, it
01:12seems like anyway, that the tornado threat with this particular storm is relatively low,
01:17not non-zero. If you're in Waterloo, especially on the south side, south half of town there,
01:23I would certainly be ready to take action. These storms have a tendency sometimes to spin
01:28up tornadoes very, very quickly. And again, we are talking about a full-fledged supercell,
01:33even though right now the main threat with this is going to be golf ball-sized hail, maybe quite
01:38a bit of it as well. Again, you're looking at a very blocky cloud. I wouldn't call this
01:43necessarily a wall cloud. If it is, it's one of the biggest ones I've ever seen. But this is just
01:50kind of some of the clouds that have formed on the leading edge of this storm. Looks, again,
01:54mighty impressive. I mean, again, if you're in the town of Waterloo right now looking down at this,
02:00this is probably something that definitely has your attention, and rightfully so. Again,
02:03the main threat with this right now for folks in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls area is going to be hail
02:08up to golf ball size. Wouldn't surprise me if there's a lot of hail with this, and wouldn't
02:13surprise me either, Jeff, if we see hail a little bit bigger than this as well. Again, right now,
02:19no tornado threat. This is a severe thunderstorm warning only. But again, that could change very,
02:24very quickly. So folks in Waterloo particularly, definitely want to make sure you are ready to rock
02:29and roll in case this thing does start to spin up. But in the meantime, we'll keep an eye on
02:34it as it
02:34rolls through Waterloo, and we'll continue to track it as it moves off to the east at about 25 miles
02:38an hour.
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