July 17th- Severe Storms hit again, some in places that were just hit last Wednesday.

Video showing the lightning show this storm had the evening of July 7th, Sirens can be heard in the back round.

Storms hit the area once again during the evening of July 7th, With several tornado warnings across parts of the central area, and damaging winds south of this area. A line of Intense strong storms developed in Minnesota, where they caused a lot of damage in the Northern Twin Cities Metro, These storms continued to move east, although they weakened some at this point they crossed the border, there was an area in this line with strong Rotation, and earlier in the evening a tornado was reported. The went through Southern Polk County. Where a Tornado Warning was issued, I was starting to get concerned because of it's range from my home, but thankfully, there No tornado's or funnel clouds were reported , and the center of rotation passed to the South of Clayton on Highway 63 between Clear Lake and Clayton. South of this area A line of a strait line winds hit, with Winds as high as 50 to 65MPH in Extreme Southern Polk County, through all of St Croix county and Western Dunn County. The storms continued to weaken as then left eastern Dunn County.

A Video Still Image taken from the lightning in the video above.

This storm has no significant effects at my house, other then the fact that it had very vivid lightning, with bolts that shot across the sky, and some heavy rain, with breezy conditions.

GRl3 Radar Shot of the storm over Amery.

I did see low clouds to my Northwest that look a bit scary for a time, but it was dark and hard to determine if was rotating or not, In total My gauge report 0.75" of rain in the storm which lasted about 30 minutes. The highest wind reported from my gauge was 19MPH, this included a field gauge I has put out, A few miles to west in Amery, their station recorded a 43MPH wind. Another video of the storm can be found here when the storm was a bit closer.

Unfortunately, people who were hardest hit this time just dealt with severe weather last Wednesday!

Damage Reports

New Richmond Airport 63MPH wind gust

Boyceville, Power Line Down

River Falls, 5 inch Tree down.