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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 >

Overview

A very warm and humid airmass developed across the region during the late afternoon hours of Tuesday, June 13. A cold front moving through the Plains ahead of a very large upper level disturbance was the driving force for scattered thunderstorm development over the Missouri River valley region of central South Dakota and north central Nebraska.

Supercell thunderstorms, some of which would routinely split into two storms, quickly developed producing large hail, damaging winds, and a few very weak tornadoes/gustnadoes. These scattered storms quickly merged into a linear band of storms as they move eastward through South Dakota. As they reached the Interstate 29 corridor, rapid intensification once again took place, producing a large area of high winds as high as 60 and 70 mph as the storms moved through western Minnesota and northwest Iowa before finally weakening below severe limits.

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