After the hottest day, so far, this year that saw the heat index soar to 115 in La Crosse and 104 in Viroqua and Rochester we got slammed by a big time storm. I'll bet Rita and Roger are glad they got back for this one!
This is the report from the National Weather Service.
During the early evening of July 1 around 7 pm, a line of showers and thunderstorms formed over south central Minnesota and north central Iowa. These storms were initially on a cold front. However, the storms over south central Minnesota began racing east ahead of the front, into the hot and humid air mass that was over the Upper Mississippi River Valley region. The result of this was numerous reports of severe wind gusts as well as wind damage across much of southeast Minnesota into southwest into central Wisconsin. A few reports of wind damage were also received in northeast Iowa.
What was most interesting about this severe weather event was that even though the storms were weakening as they tracked east through the region, they still produced plenty of severe weather. The cause of the weakening was a combination of temperatures cooling through the evening and the environment turning less favorable for storms to organize over Wisconsin. Nevertheless, severe wind gusts and wind damage occurred into areas as far east as Sparta, Tomah, Necedah and Big Flats in the Upper Mississippi River Valley region.
Storm reports included 58 MPH winds in Rochester with trees down. Power lines were blown down in Trempealeau, Onalaska and La Crescent,
Around La Crosse there were trees down and several trees were uprooted along Lake Onalaska with 70 MPH winds reported. Sparta reported roof damage and trees down.
There were a couple of other interesting reports from Minnesota. Dassel, Minnesota, reported grapefruit size hail and Category One Hurricane force wind gusts were reported at Marshall.
All of that mean old weather is long gone from our area and headed into the Ohio Valley to give them a miserable day today.
AND, I MISSED THE WHOLE THING!
This is the report from the National Weather Service.
During the early evening of July 1 around 7 pm, a line of showers and thunderstorms formed over south central Minnesota and north central Iowa. These storms were initially on a cold front. However, the storms over south central Minnesota began racing east ahead of the front, into the hot and humid air mass that was over the Upper Mississippi River Valley region. The result of this was numerous reports of severe wind gusts as well as wind damage across much of southeast Minnesota into southwest into central Wisconsin. A few reports of wind damage were also received in northeast Iowa.
What was most interesting about this severe weather event was that even though the storms were weakening as they tracked east through the region, they still produced plenty of severe weather. The cause of the weakening was a combination of temperatures cooling through the evening and the environment turning less favorable for storms to organize over Wisconsin. Nevertheless, severe wind gusts and wind damage occurred into areas as far east as Sparta, Tomah, Necedah and Big Flats in the Upper Mississippi River Valley region.
Storm reports included 58 MPH winds in Rochester with trees down. Power lines were blown down in Trempealeau, Onalaska and La Crescent,
Around La Crosse there were trees down and several trees were uprooted along Lake Onalaska with 70 MPH winds reported. Sparta reported roof damage and trees down.
There were a couple of other interesting reports from Minnesota. Dassel, Minnesota, reported grapefruit size hail and Category One Hurricane force wind gusts were reported at Marshall.
All of that mean old weather is long gone from our area and headed into the Ohio Valley to give them a miserable day today.
AND, I MISSED THE WHOLE THING!
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