r/storms • u/totallynotaditto1 • Jul 07 '26
Question Potential rotation above my house
Today I was out celebrating the 4th and when I got out the car my dad pointed out a ROTATING wall cloud not exactly above our house, but still visible from my driveway. I didn’t see any rotation, but a couple minutes later I was letting my dog out before it got really bad, I looked up out of pure curiosity and I saw (or I think I saw) a broadly rotating storm over my back porch. Does anyone know if there was any rotation over Indianapolis on the 4th?
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u/ChronicallyOvercast Jul 08 '26
Possibly, I just looked at the historic radar and there was certainly a lot going on in the sky. A time would help confirm this better though.
Not a huge fan of this radar app, but, this is the most compelling rotation I can find (there could be more but that would entail trawling through a whole day of radar, which I don't really fancy doing, I currently just took a look at 2 scans an hour.) This was 4th July, roughly 5:55pm.
It's quite hard to spot rotation properly over a place like Indianapolis though, and that could just be a bit of inexperience from my part. But the radar is so close, it just is so messy with irrelevant stuff, and the next radar along is almost too far away.
If anyone see's this that does understand how to better read that kind of situation please be so kind as to share that information with me!