Strong to Severe Thunderstorms Reported across the area today, some also effecting my location- Many warnings issued.

My photo of a Storm front as a storm approached my yard from the North.

This is the second time this week the area dealt with strong storms and warnings. Strong to Severe Thunderstorms effected the area this afternoon, many thunderstorms warnings were issued, including a tornado warning in Washburn county. Storms developed along a cold front and moved southeast, first starting off in Burnett County and Northern Polk County, then spreading southeast, effecting my locations and other places in Dunn and Barron Counties.

Burnett/Washburn County:
Many small cells formed from near Siren to Northwest of Spooner, some of these came strong, particularly one that hit southern Burnett County. A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for hail and 60MPH winds, This storm effected mainly places south of Siren, later on a report of some wind damage near Falun, East of Grantsburg. There was another storm that became possibly tornadic in Washburn County, The storm that caused a tornado warning was a small cell to the west of Spooner, Law Enforcement reported a tornado, but no damage came in from this area, so it's no known wither it was actually just a funnel cloud.

Polk/Barron County:

Radar shot of the storm that effected Polk/Barron Counties.

The storms that effected these counties started off as the storms in Burnett County that moved Southeast and back-developed into Western Polk County, They moved South and were primarily and produced very gusty winds, very heavy rain and some hail. This storm effected every community south of Highway 8, but was strongest in the Amery, Clear Lake, Clayton/Turtle Lake areas, just before reaching these areas, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for 1 inch hail and 60MPH winds. The storm continued East southeast and hit Praire Farm and Dallas in southern Barron county. a report of quarter sized hail was made from north of Amery with this storm, No wind damages report were yet entered.

St Croix/Dunn County:
The storms that effected St Croix County developed very quickly, just north of Baldwin, This storm was a hail/heavy rain producer. and effected Baldwin, Woodville and Wilson. Quarter sized hail was reported in Baldwin with this cell. The same line that effected Polk/Barron Counties, it continued to produce heavy rain and very gusty winds, it hit places such as Ridgeland, Wheeler, Boycevill and Colfax. No reports of hail, or damage we reported in this county.

Coverage of the storm at my location




Video of the very gusty winds and heavy from the storm in my yard.

This storm was quite intense when it hit, one of the windiest storms I've seen for quite some time. The clouds before this storm started out black, and the closer the storm came, the more scary-looking the clouds got! At one point when I took the picture at the top of this post, I saw a shelf cloud with a greenish-tint below it, a sign that the storm was strong! After the shelf cloud passed, I could hear a loud deep roarer in the distance from wind and heavy rain. Soon after, I started getting strong wind gusts from the north almost a bit northeast with heavy rain, the temperature dropped over 10 degrees shortly after, going from 77 to 65! In the video above, the small tree near the middle of the screen was taking quite a beating from the winds, I was starting to get concerned it would snap, but it pulled though. Some very small branches, were blown down, and many of my my houseplants, even some big ones were tipped over. There was no hail at my yard, and no tree damage anywhere nearby, My wind anemometer on top of the house picked up a 32MPH gust. I also got some fairly impressive rainfall totals, picking up 0.91" of rain in this storm., This is the second time in a week that I've gotten a strong storm.
here is one last image of the huge thunderheads as they were moving away

Storm Reports:

NW Spooner, Tornado reported by law enforcement.

Falun branches down.

N Amery 1 inch hail.

Baldwin 1 inch hail.

Turtle Lake, Heavy Rain, Torrential Rain with standing water at some street corners.