Thunderstorm Wind — Clearwater, Minnesota

2018-06-29 · near Gonvick, Clearwater, Minnesota

65 EG

Magnitude

Event narrative

Trees were snapped and uprooted.

Wider weather episode

The early morning hours of Friday, June 29th, remained warm and muggy. Just after midnight, temperatures were still in the 70s with dew points around 70. A line of thunderstorms moved into the Devils Lake area around 2 am CDT. This line of storms had several bowing segments, which are indicative of strong winds. The most obvious bowing segment between highway 2 and Interstate 94, where the most amount of damage occurred. The main bowing segment exited into north central Minnesota around 6 am CDT. Well behind the bowing thunderstorm complex, a mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) formed, and produced another round of widespread damaging winds.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 759931. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.