Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

On July 1, an High Precipitation supercell moved across southeast South Dakota into southwest Minnesota. This storm produce 2 tornadoes, hail up to the size of tennis balls (2.5 inches) and wind speeds well in excess of 80 mph. There was significant damage to trees and some buildings in Wentworth and Flandreau in South Dakota and to Marshall, Balatin, and Lake Benton in Minnesota. There were also two tornadoes with the storm – an EF2 tornado that hit Tyler, Minnesota and an EF1 tornado that hit Ruthton, Minnesota.

Images of the storms from the WSR-88D radar in Sioux Falls, South Dakota can be viewed in PDF format:

PDF (File Size: ~3MB) (https://weather.gov/media/fsd/pdf/July_1_2011_HP.pdf)