Month: June 2012

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June 17th 2012 Storm Chase Trip Western Minnesota.

Wall cloud near Pennock,MN June 17th 2012 Yesterday I took on the opportunity to storm chase in Western Minnesota with a friend of mine from the region. I seen many experiences yesterday that were inspiring, worrysome, exciting and new. I left Rochester around 12pm and made it to Wasceca,MN around 1pm. I brought along a …

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Thunderstorm Risk Sunday as warm front pushes north brining in a short lived very hot heavy wave! Temps apporaching 95-100.F on Mon/Tues with heat index values over 100.F

Regional Weather View. A warm front will be causing problems in the Upper Midwest Sunday and Monday as a severe weather outbreak is expected across SD and Minnesota on Sunday Afternoon, with the severe weather threat push north and east for Monday. Tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds are likely. Flooding with heavy rain is …

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Sundays Severe Weather Risk, Damaging winds and hail threat after dark tonight.

Image from SPC The SPC has issued a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms for much of Minnesota, Northern Iowa and Western Wisconsin. This includes the entire local area. A moderate risk is out for Eastern SD and Southwest Minnesota. Storms are expected to 1st develop in South Dakota/SW Western Minnesota later this afternoon along warm …

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LIVE COVERAGE: Severe Thunderstorm Watches posted in Southern Iowa

Below you can find today’s LIVE COVERAGE of the Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Southern Iowa, featuring LIVE RADAR, A LIVE CHAT with 3-5 severe weather analysts and before they break in warnings, and CHASESTREAM showing LIVE VIDEO of chasers in the field. Thanks for watching – and feel free to shoot those photos and videos to …

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Storms slam into Central and Northern parts of the area producing very high winds and sigificant damage along with extreamally high rainfall totals in parts of Dodge, Goodhue, Olmstead and Wabasha counties.

Radar estimated rainfall totals for Thursday June 14th. Image from NWS La Crosse. Significant storms slammed into the area during the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday, as they developed along a frontal boundary and began moving southeast and bringing sigificant damage from high winds to Southwest Goodhue, Dodge, and Olmstead counties. Before this happened, …