July 26, 2019 Storms

Northeastern Minnesota

Some of the supercell and tornado parameters looked pretty good for this day.  A cold front was heading southeastward into Minnesota, and with CAPE and decent low-level turning of the winds (some fairly strong upper tropospheric winds, too), it could be a pretty interesting day.

As it turned out, a line of storms developed, and I did not observe any supercells.  Those developed west-northwest of the Twin Cities and hit the Twin Cities with some very large hail-- up to four inches.  Here are a few pictures from my chase.

Storm near Cherry, MN.

East into the Superior National Forest, looking back east at the line of storms.

Rainbow over a pond in the Superior National Forest.

A smaller storm develops near Duluth, as seen from just east of Hibbing.

Shooting from Hibbing, looking southeast at a storm over the north shore of Lake Superior.

Sunset from atop the ski jump at Mount Itasca in Coleraine.

Route for the day. 164 miles.

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