News DetailSevere weather possible today over the Upper MS River Valley
Posted At: July 26, 2007 @ 10:41 AM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: General
Severe storms will develop this afternoon/evening along an advancing cold front and old outflow boundaries from the previous night's convection in southern MN, WI, northern IA, southeast SD, and extreme northeast NE. The WRF is forecasting a 30 kt low-level jet to develop at 00z in extreme southeast MN, southern WI, and northeast IA, so any discrete storms in this region will have a chance to rotate, given the moderately strong northwesterly flow aloft. Selected panels from this morning's WRF run for 7:00 pm CDT are displayed below:
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Sweet! Hope we get something...let's get it ON!!!!
Yes! I hope we here in Minneapolis get hit hard. Although my fear is that the worst may be south and east of here. If this system stalls out for a few hours, we could definitally use a few inches of rain.
Might have the first action of the day way out ahead of the line that is in central MN right now. I see a patch of towering cu trying to go up straight east of me, which would put it maybe in extreme east central WI. Won't be anything on radar yet but there is a scattered cu field around me trying to do something. Maybe one of them will pop and stay out ahead of everything.
Severe thunderstorm watch issued for much of eastern MN and western WI!
Storms initiating rapidly
Wright MN has to be an interesting place right about now.
Wow storms are exploding rapidly in MN and WI!!!
A severe thunderstorm watch was just sent out by the SPC... Here are more details.
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN MINNESOTA
NORTHERN WISCONSIN
LAKE SUPERIOR
EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 115 PM UNTIL
900 PM CDT.
HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 80
STATUTE MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST
OF KENNEDY WISCONSIN TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF REDWOOD FALLS
MINNESOTA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.
DISCUSSION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY
ACROSS CENTRAL MN AND SPREAD SOUTHEASTWARD INTO WI DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG INSTABILITY AND SUFFICIENT NORTHWEST
FLOW ALOFT WILL PROMOTE A RISK OF SUPERCELLS/BOWS CAPABLE OF
DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.
AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT
TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60
KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM
MOTION VECTOR 30030.
My geography sucks. I meant to say WEST central Wisconsin in my above post.
We're in a tstorm warning here in Duluth and I'm stuck at work!! Figures! The clouds are getting HUGE!!
Looks like they're falling into a line...
omg! i cant beilive it, it looks lke its going to rain here woot! looks like a deachu or whatever it is might be devleping in wisconsin am i right or not?