July 4/2009 Unconfirmed Tornado/Funnel

A lee side trough set the stage for a typical round of Alberta foothills thunderstorms today. Good flow aloft got them off the hills and moving east onto the prairies. Fallon and I targeted a isolated severe warned cell in the foothills northwest of Rocky Mountain House after almost heading south to get to the storms south of Olds on the QE2. After letting the storm core us northwest of Sylvan Lake, we follwed the backside of it east along the Aspelund road and stopped as we noticed funnels starting to spin. The first 4 photo's are of what I think is a brief rope like tornado that was west-north-west of Blackfalds, and the 5th photo is the funnel that everyone and thier dog observed in Red Deer. Decent southerly 850's were forecasted at 0z east of the foothills tonight, so I suspect once the storm reached those winds it gave it a little spin. Not supercellular, but either way they were fun to photograph! My holidays start soon, and I hope to photograph and document at least one stacked plated supercell.