/Issued 2:49 PM CDT, Friday, June 29, 2018/
Archived Radar Images of the bow echo which moved through parts of northern and northeastern Minnesota this Friday morning, June 29, 2018.
Source for all these radar images: https://weather.us/
Source: http://weather.cod.edu
Goes-16 satellite imagery from Thursday evening, June 28, 2018. Absolutely stunning satellite loop showing powerful supercell thunderstorms which produced some tornadoes, destructive hail and wind damage Thursday evening in parts of the northern Plains — This was the beginnings of the bow echo that hit parts of the Northland Friday morning.
Severe weather in parts of the Northland this morning, now the heat! Mid afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s along and south of Highway 2 in northeast Minnesota and in all of northwest Wisconsin. Lake breeze keeping it cooler closer to Lake Superior this afternoon.
It’s extremely muggy this afternoon with widespread 70+ degree dew points!
June 29, 2018 Northland Storm Reports
Source: https://www.weather.gov/dlh/
9:30 AM: Marine Thunderstorm Wind. 46 mph. 2 SE Bayfield, WI (Ashland County)
8:58 AM: Marine Thunderstorm Wind. 63 mph. 17 ESE Beaver Bay, MN. Ship report Algoma Guardian reported a gust of 55 knots.
8:45 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. 1 SSE Tofte, MN (Cook County) Tree knocked down near the intersection of Highway 61 and Temperance Road.
8:04 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 65 mph. 5 S Ely, MN (St. Louis County)
7:55 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 80 mph. 4 WSW Snow Bank Lake, MN (Lake County)
7:54 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. 9 W Butterfly Lake, MN (Lake County)
7:42 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Babbitt, MN (St. Louis County) Lots of trees and power lines downed.
7:42 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Babbitt, MN (St. Louis County) 20 inch diameter tree toppled and power line knocked down.
7:38 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Ely, MN (St. Louis County) Trees are down in the Ely area including on power lines. The power is out.
7:35 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 44 mph. 3 SE Eveleth, MN (St. Louis County)
7:35 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Eveleth, MN (St. Louis County) Lots of trees and power lines downed.
7:34 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Iron Junction, MN (St. Louis County) 20 inch diameter tree snapped on Kapla Lake Road.
7:30 AM: Hail — 0.50 inch. Chisholm, MN (St. Louis County)
7:29 AM: Hail — 0.88 inch. 1 E Embarrass, MN (St. Louis County)
7:26 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 49 mph. Hibbing, MN (St. Louis County)
7:26 AM: Hail — 0.75 inch. 2 SW Chisholm, MN (St. Louis County)
7:18 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 58 mph. Cook, MN (St. Louis County)
7:14 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Hibbing, MN (St. Louis County) Lots of trees and power lines downed.
7:09 AM: Hail — 0.75 inch. Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
7:08 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. 7 ENE Gheen, MN (St. Louis County) Several pine trees ripped up at the roots and knocked down near Elbow Lake.
7:07 AM: Hail — 0.50 inch. 2 SSW Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
7:07 AM: Hail — 1.00 inch. 2 N Mountain Iron, MN (St. Louis County) Quarter sized hail.
7:05 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Keewatin, MN (Itasca County) Large tree branch down. The branch is 3 inches in diameter.
7:02 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:02 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. 11 NW Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
6:59 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Coleraine, MN (Itasca County) Tree fell onto a home and took down a power line. No injuries reported.
6:39 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. Bigfork, MN (Itasca County)
6:31 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Bowstring, MN (Itasca County) Tree knocked down into a powerline and caught on fire.
6:20 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. 2 NE Inger, MN (Itasca County) Report of 15 inch diameter aspen trees down along CR 35 south of Oslund.
6:05 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. Alvwood, MN (Itasca County) Numerous trees down along CR 29 near Alvwood. One tree was on a cabin.
Links to Power Outage Maps
Minnesota Power: http://outagemap.mnpower.com/external/default.html
Lake Country Power: http://mi.lcp.coop:82/#viewer-menu-parent
Note: Over 5400 Lake Country Power members are still without power as of 2 PM Friday, 93 total outages.
Note: Severe thunderstorms plowed through portions of northern and northeast Minnesota this morning bringing damaging wind gusts and some hail with widespread wind damage reports. Overall I don’t think the forecast was too far off for this severe weather event, timing was almost spot on with the projected time of potential impacts between 5-10 AM this morning, the area that was hit ended up favoring the north side of the outlined area, but I did mention that in my blog about this system possibly tracking a little farther north due to the approaching cap (warm temps aloft) which were moving northeast at the same time as severe thunderstorms were moving east out of northwest Minnesota early Friday morning.
Tim