A weak area of low pressure over west central Wisconsin was the main ingredient for isolated severe weather on this date.
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The episode as NWS MPX wrote it up.
A weak area of low pressure over west central Wisconsin was the main ingredient for isolated severe weather on this date.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 1:14 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 214 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST PRESENTS SEVERAL CHALLENGES...MOST OF WHICH REVOLVE AROUND SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. STATIONARY BOUNDARY REMAINS DRAPED JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA...FROM SOUTHWEST IOWA...TO SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...AND TOWARD GREEN BAY WISCONSIN. CONVECTION AGAIN FIRING ALONG THE BOUNDARY IN NORTHERN IOWA AND INTO SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT HAS GENERALLY FAVORED TRAINING ECHOES...WITH AND ENE MOVEMENT...CONFIRMED BY MOISTURE TRANSPORT ON THE 310K SURFACE. AS HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST DAY OR SO...THE HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS AND CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD REMAIN JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE A CLOSE CALL IN THE EAU CLAIRE VICINITY. IN ADDITION TO THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM...ANOTHER SPOKE OF VORTICITY WILL ROTATE AROUND THE BASE OF THE UPPER VORTEX IN THE NORTHERN ROCKIES...BRINGING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO AREAS FROM MADISON TO LITTLE FALLS AND POINTS WEST...OWING TO THE INSTABILITY FROM THE COLDER TEMPERATURES ALOFT. TOMORROW THROUGH TUESDAY...THERE REALLY ARE NOT ANY CLEAR SIGNALS OF ORGANIZED STORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE AFOREMENTIONED UPPER VORTEX IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AS IT EJECTS TOWARD NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST ONTARIO...WITH THE MAIN BLAST OF VORTICITY TRAVERSING THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. ALTHOUGH IT IT CLOSE...NAM AND GFS BOTH PROJECT THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE VORT MAX TO GRAZE THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA...SO HAVE MAINTAINED POPS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH MONDAY NIGHT POSSIBLY EVEN BEING DRY. AS FAR AS TUESDAY GOES...THE UPPER SUPPORT SHOULD STAY TO THE NORTH...BUT A SHARPENING FRONT DRAPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WESTERN WISCONSIN COULD BRING SOME PRECIPITATION TO THE AREA. CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH...SO JUST BROAD BRUSHED THE AREA WITH SLIGHT CHANCES. TUESDAY NIGHT AND INTO THE MIDDLE TO LATTER PART OF THE WORK WEEK...A LARGER UPPER TROUGH BUILDS INTO THE WESTERN CONUS...BRINGING A DEVELOPING SURFACE SYSTEM INTO THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PLAINS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. WARM ADVECTION IN ADVANCE OF THE TROUGH SHOULD RESULT IN SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH MORE ORGANIZED ACTIVITY FROM WEDNESDAY AND INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WITH A WARM FRONT MOVING NORTHWARD...A WIDE OPEN GULF/ASSOCIATED INSTABILITY...AND SUFFICIENT DEEP LAYER SHEAR /THE LATTER TWO POINTS COMING TOGETHER ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA/ SHOULD MAKE FOR A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WEDNESDAY EVENING AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND POSSIBLY INTO THURSDAY. THE MID RANGE MODELS BEGIN TO DIVERGE SOMEWHAT TOWARD THE WEEKEND...WITH THE ECMWF BEING THE MOST REASONABLE...FAVORING A LESS PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THE EASTERN RIDGE. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES SHOULD PICK UP AGAIN TOWARD SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY...WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES EXPECTED FOR THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION.../18Z TAF ISSUANCE/ A VERY DIFFICULT FORECAST WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED OVER NORTHERN IOWA AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. AN EXTENSIVE LAYER LOW CLOUDS STRETCH NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO WISCONSIN. MVFR CEILINGS WERE ROUGHLY BETWEEN 1-3 THOUSAND FEET AGL WITH WX CONDS 6-8 THOUSAND FEET AGL NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM KMML..KOVL..KSTC TO KHYR LINE. UPPER LOW OVR NRN PLAINS MOVING NW MN BY MONDAY EVENING. CEILINGS LOWERING OVR THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THE TAF SITES BY DAYBREAK MORNING. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && KAT/JVM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UDPATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1157 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 091600- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 1157 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK...WITH CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY...TUESDAY...AND WEDNESDAY MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS...ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY. CONTINUE TO MONITOR FUTURE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. KAT
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:56 UTC.
3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud near Almena was photographed. Numerous calls from citizens came into the county law enforcement center. There were no reports of any touchdowns. There were no storms in the area, but there was a wind shift line and towering cumulus.
Numerous reports of hail this size across the city.
Lightning struck a home and started a fire, according to fire department investigators. The house burned to an empty shell.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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