June 18th 2013: Early Morning Storm

It’s finally starting to feel a little more like summer around central Minnesota, especially with the amount of storms Minnesota has been seeing recently. Early Tuesday morning, June 18th 2013, an upper-air trough moved from North Dakota into central Minnesota and produced a storm riddled with rain and hail. This storm had the biggest affect on regions southwest of the Twin Cities Metro area, namely near Springfield and Wabasso. Over 3 hours, Redwood Falls Airport recorded .31 inches of rain. Hail was reported to cover the ground, with baseball sized hail being found near Springfield. Although the rain helps the drought conditions, the hail managed to damage crops right outside of Springfield.

The estimated precipitation imagery to the right shows the path of the storm, and what areas got hit the most over a 24-hour period (ending 7:00 AM, June 18th 2013).

Below is the local storm report provided by the NWS Chanhassen.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
618 AM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013
..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0115 AM     HAIL             NNE GRANITE FALLS       44.81N 95.54W
06/18/2013  M0.75 INCH       CHIPPEWA           MN   TRAINED SPOTTER
0147 AM     HAIL             WABASSO                 44.40N 95.25W
06/18/2013  M1.75 INCH       REDWOOD            MN   TRAINED SPOTTER
0200 AM     HAIL             9 SE WABASSO            44.31N 95.13W
06/18/2013  M2.50 INCH       REDWOOD            MN   PUBLIC
NEAR BASEBALL SIZED.
0220 AM     HAIL             1 W SPRINGFIELD         44.24N 95.00W
06/18/2013  M0.75 INCH       BROWN              MN   TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL DIME SIZE OR LESS COVERING THE GROUND.
0238 AM     HAIL             5 SW SPRINGFIELD        44.19N 95.05W
06/18/2013  M0.88 INCH       BROWN              MN   TRAINED SPOTTER
OCCURRED NEAR INTERSECTION OF COUNTRY ROAD 23 AND COUNTY
ROAD 2.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
939 AM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013
..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0220 AM     HAIL             1 SW SPRINGFIELD        44.23N 94.99W
06/18/2013  M2.50 INCH       BROWN              MN   PUBLIC
DAMAGE TO AREA CROPS.