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Tracking Winter Weather and Frigid Temperatures Through This Weekend

A clipper storm will move across the Great Lakes through this weekend with periods of light snow, gusty winds, and lake effect snow bands which could make for hazardous travel at times. A frigid airmass will spread eastward behind this storm into the Midwest and Eastern U.S. through the weekend. Read More >

Overview

Several rounds of severe weather impacted the area on Thursday, May 19, 2022.

The first round of storms produced large hail (up to ping pong ball size) in southeast Minnesota between 12:24 - 1:54 PM.

Other rounds of severe weather occurred from late afternoon through the late evening hours. These later storms led to various reports of hail, damaging winds, urban flooding in La Crosse and Winona, and a brief EF0 tornado in the Town of Wells, just southeast of Sparta, WI. 

 

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La Crosse area radar animation between 7:48-8:46 PM
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