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Prairie Wind Chasers: August 2013

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Friday, August 30, 2013. Minnesota Tornado Count for 2013: A few added! The National Weather Service in Chanhassen put out this public information statement about the Tornado season in Minnesota this year; as well as information about a few they added to the count after research through video, pictures and chaser accounts. Read below. Tornadoes in 2013 in the 51 Counties Covered by NWS Chanhassen. All tornadoes in the Chanhassen area this year have been rated EF-0. The six t...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: August 8, 2015: North Central Minnesota Storms

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Thursday, August 13, 2015. August 8, 2015: North Central Minnesota Storms. With the big severe risk down in Nebraska all depending on if the morning MCS and cloud cover could recover; we decided to stay local. Storms were beginning to build and fire off to our North; so Nick and I went towards the trees of MN and chased the storms that fired between Garrison and Grand Rapids. We sat just south of Hill City in an somewhat open field area to watch the approaching storm.

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Prairie Wind Chasers: July 5, 2015: West Central Minnesota Cold Front Chase

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Sunday, July 19, 2015. July 5, 2015: West Central Minnesota Cold Front Chase. We enjoyed the holiday weekend out in Western MN. We knew there was a chance of storms on Sunday; and with not wanting to head back to the cities any time soon in the afternoon due to all the traffic heading back in; we stuck out in Western MN waiting for the storms to fire. The SPC had an enhanced risk out all day for this area. We kept watch for any sign of CU to form off to the west. The storms ...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: July 17, 2015 Eastern South Dakota Huge Hail & Cool Skies

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Saturday, July 18, 2015. July 17, 2015 Eastern South Dakota Huge Hail and Cool Skies. We saw that the SPC put our favorite chasing spot: Western Minnesota and Eastern South Dakota into a slight risk for Friday. Nick looked at the models and said - we need to be on this. Huge hailstones the fell in Britton. The power went off at the local gas station as the rain and hail just poured. Looking east towards the back edge of the storm. Mammatus straight over your head! When we fi...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: July 12, 2015: Western MN Moderate Risk Tornado Day

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Sunday, July 19, 2015. July 12, 2015: Western MN Moderate Risk Tornado Day. Since Saturday morning we knew that Western MN would be a big show day - and possible the most severe day in Minnesota this year. We went out to the farm after stopping by Jessica Becker's graduation party in Buffalo. We went to watch the fireworks show in Morris for the Prairie Pioneer Days. Below is a couple of shots from the show. The Public Weather Outlook issued by the SPC @ 8am CDT. We went fur...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: August 2015

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Thursday, August 13, 2015. August 8, 2015: North Central Minnesota Storms. With the big severe risk down in Nebraska all depending on if the morning MCS and cloud cover could recover; we decided to stay local. Storms were beginning to build and fire off to our North; so Nick and I went towards the trees of MN and chased the storms that fired between Garrison and Grand Rapids. We sat just south of Hill City in an somewhat open field area to watch the approaching storm.

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Prairie Wind Chasers: April 2014

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Tornado Drill Day for MN Severe Weather Awareness Week. With the storms starting to ramp up just to our south (Nebraska, Texas area) just in the last couple of days; and with an expected outbreak coming for this weekend. Today is the day to take heed in participating in the Tornado Drills. Today is the day for the annual Statewide Tornado Drills. The sirens will go off at 1:45pm and again tonight at 6:55pm. Would you be ready in 13 minutes? Go to th...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: October 2013

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Friday, October 25, 2013. October 11, 2013: Traverse County Tornado and Funnel Clouds. 10-11-13 Western Minnesota Funnel Clouds. The day turned out to be a highly successful end of season chase back on the home turf in far western Minnesota on what was a Low topped supercell set up with marginal CAPE but high amounts of shear and Helicity on the northeast side of a deep surface Low over central South Dakota. We left the Cities around Noon to head out to Western MN. We did se...

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Prairie Wind Chasers: April 2015

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Prairie Wind Chasers website. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. April 12, 2015: First Chase of the Season. After the MN Severe Storms Conference on Saturday, we were itching to see some storms. The Storm Prediction Center put out a Marginal risk for up into Southern MN/Central MN. The marginal risk was mostly for marginal hail and wind with any storm that would fire on the cold front. There we experienced small pea sized to pencil eraser sized hail; and heavy downpour of rain. Friday, April 10, 2015. Severe wea...