NOTE - Corrected on Tuesday, June 29th.
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Mike Leuthold and family flew to Minneapolis late Friday (June 25th) and had quite a ride as their arrival coincided with severe thunderstorms that produced many reports of tornadoes, hail, and severe winds. The NWS radar 0.5 degree reflectivity images are shown above for about 23 UTC on the 25th and 00 UTC on the 26th. The radar is approximately eight miles west of the airport. Mike's narrative:
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Had a hell of a time getting to MN last night. Got put in a approach stack over SW MN as a supercell was moving SW of MSP at around 0Z putting all air traffic in a snarl. Sat in the stack for about 45 minutes then vectored across southern MN then due north into MSP. Starting hitting moderate chop about 30 mi out and the capt. came on telling the flight attendants to buckle up and don't get up-had a worried tone to his voice. Got within 5 mi or so of KMSP and we about flew into a second supercell. I observed power line flashing on the ground along with a big inflow cloud base with freq lightning and was shitting as he kept the approach on until about 2 mi from the edge. We were in strong updrafts with continuous moderate to occasional severe turbulence as he finally veered off as the airport was now reporting G60. Go look at the 0Z radar-65-70dbz core. We then diverted to Sioux Falls, refueled, and returned a couple of hours later. I was unable to get pictures during the peak as it was too bumpy to take pictures or video but have a nice video as we returned to MN as the storms had now formed a squall line that was pushing into IA.
This was one time that being both a pilot and meteorologist worked against me as 'ignorance was bliss' on this flight-or less scared.
Before we left Tucson, I had the wife make sandwiches as I said we may be going to FSD instead of MSP-One time I wish a prediction didn't verifty!
This was one time that being both a pilot and meteorologist worked against me as 'ignorance was bliss' on this flight-or less scared.
Before we left Tucson, I had the wife make sandwiches as I said we may be going to FSD instead of MSP-One time I wish a prediction didn't verifty!
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