4:18 PM Thursday, June 30, 2022
Another round of severe thunderstorms hit parts of northeast Minnesota Wednesday evening with several reports of quarter size to ping pong ball size hail, with even a few reports of golf ball to hen egg size hail around the Grand Rapids area Wednesday evening.
Local Storm Reports for Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Source: NWS Duluth, MN
10:00 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 6 NW Castle Danger, MN (Lake County) 25-minute hail duration with pea to quarter size hail with some minor leaf damage to plants.
8:25 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 1 NE Little Swan, MN (St. Louis County) 2.10″ of rain also fell with this storm.
8:13 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 1 SSE Pengilly, MN (Itasca County)
7:59 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 4 NW Taconite, MN (Itasca County)
7:55 PM: Hail 2.00″ (hen egg size) 2 SSW Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
7:46 PM: Hail 1.75″ (golf ball size) 1 WNW Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:45 PM: Hail 1.50″ (ping pong ball size) Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:40 PM: Hail 1.50″ (ping pong ball size) 1 N Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County) 1.22 inches of rain was also measured from this storm
7:38 PM: Hail 1.50″ (ping pong ball size) 4 SSE Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
7:37 PM: Hail 1.50″ (ping pong ball size) Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:32 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 1 WSW Coleraine, MN (Itasca County)
7:28 PM: Haill 1.50″ (ping pong ball size) 1 SW Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:28 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 1 WNW Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County)
7:23 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) Cohasset, MN (Itasca County)
7:22 PM: Hail 1.00″ (quarter size) 3 SW Cohasset, MN (Itasca County)
7:03 PM: Hail 0.75″. 5 S La Prairie, MN (Itasca County)
A narrow corridor of heavy rain developed Wednesday evening north of Duluth.
Rainfall Reports from Wednesday-Thursday morning, June 29-30, 2022
Grand Rapids, MN: 0.61″
Chisholm-Hibbing Airport: 0.34″
Seagull Lake, MN: 0.32″
Littlefork, MN: 0.27″
Eveleth-Virginia, MN: 0.24″
International Falls, MN: 0.21″
Orr, MN: 0.18″
Bigfork, MN: 0.15″
Ely, MN: 0.13″
Cass Lake, MN: 0.09″
Isabella, MN: 0.05″
Hayward, WI: 0.05″
Grand Marais Airport: 0.05″
Washburn, WI: 0.03″
Duluth Sky Harbor Airport: 0.03″
Duluth Airport: 0.02″
Ashland, WI: 0.01″
Siren, WI: 0.01″
Superior Airport: 0.01″
Rainfall totals have varied considerably in the Northland this month, with northwest Wisconsin seeing the least amount of rain, in fact June 2022 will end up the 2nd driest June on record in Ashland with just 0.78″ of rain.
Rainfall Totals for June 2022
International Falls, MN: 4.28″ (+0.50″ above normal)
Duluth, MN: 4.07″ (-0.32″ below normal)
Hibbing, MN: 4.04″ (-0.32″ below normal)
Brainerd, MN: 2.43″ (-1.60″ below normal)
Ashland, WI: 0.78″ (-3.14″ below normal)
Here’s a look at the percent of normal precipitation over the last 30 days.
Brown: Drier than normal
Green: Wetter than normal
Abnormally Dry (yellow) conditions are expanding in Wisconsin with nearly 40% of the state abnormally dry, up from 15% last week.
Moderate Drought has developed in far southern Minnesota per this week’s drought monitor, with 0.61% of Minnesota in moderate drought, this is up from 0% last week.
15% of Minnesota is abnormally dry (yellow), this is up from 10% last week.
Thanks for reading!
Tim
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