The southwestern Manitoba storms of August 18, 2011
What happened
On August 18, 2011, severe thunderstorms affected southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg. The largest hail reported was 8 km southwest of Woodlands at 01:08Z--golf ball hail. Winnipeg received quarter-sized hail from the storms.
Of note in these RADAR animations are:
- The hail spikes on many of the conventional scans
- The sunspikes on the VIL animation
- The outflow boundary from the storm in the interlake that eventually cut off the surface-based parcels being ingested into the southern storm
- The attenuation of the reflectivity products when the radome was wet at 01:10Z
- The beam blocking on some of the reflectivity scans being caused by high reflectivities
RADAR images
Email the webmaster
Last update to this page: August 20, 2011