MARCH 10, 2021 MINNESOTA: EARLY SEASON TORNADO WARNED STORMS

March 27, 2021 by Brad in 2021

The first cumulus towers going up on the western side of Owatonna, MN as we watched in anticipation from the John Deere parking lot. Notice the snow piles still around.

Pronounced wall cloud with the storm near Faribault, MN, looking southwest. Could not tell if it was rotating but was there for a while.

Ground scraping inflow as the storm between Faribault and Dundas, MN rode the warm front. Seriously on the ground!! Impressively low LCL's.

Another shot of the ground scraping inflow along the warm front feeding what I presumed was the wall cloud coming around the south end of the storm here.

This was interesting as a bowl lowering on a tornado warned storm was rotating near Shieldsville, MN. Looking from the north to south and just getting out of nickel size hail so was a tough vantage point.

Lots going on here. This was near Stanton, MN. So much motion in the clouds here and broad rotation around this action area. We had strong RFD at one point as we got east of the hook. Was just not organized enough and couldn't tighten up.

Awesome structure on the tornado warned supercell near Randolph, MN! Shot out the front window. Wish we would have stopped to take more photos here. Massive lowering.

Wrapping up nicely between Cannon Falls and Miesville, MN. This whole thing was rotating and the area to the right of the road was reaching for the ground. Nice structure to this updraft reaching of the supercell.

Beast mode supercell between Miesville and Hastings, MN. You can see the inflow tail on the right feeding the storm that was latched onto the warm front here. Left side was coming around very fast with the rear flank downdraft. That cloud bank on the leading edge of the RFD was literally on the ground.

Another shot of the storm right before we drove north right into it. Got down to very low visibility and gusty winds once we hit that low cloud bank.

Mesoscale Discussion issued at 1:32 p.m. CST indicating severe thunderstorm development by 21Z. Watch issuance probability at 60%. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0150.html

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/2021/ww0016.html

New Mesoscale Discussion issued at 5:43 p.m. CST as the severe potential continues with an isolated tornado threat: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0152.html

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