Lets talk about 2009 severe thunderstorms or the lack of severe thunderstorms.Also will be talking about non severe thunderstorms...So lets break this down month by month shall we...Ok we shall.
Jan...We had no thunderstorm activity...
Feb....We saw our first thunderstorm on the 9th,then on the 26 we had another thunderstorm day,which we here at The Weather Center had thundersnow....So Feb we had two thunderstorm days...
Zero severe thunderstorm days were recorded...
Mar.... We had a thunderstorm at or around the 11 pm hour on the 23rd...More thunderstorms moved through the area on the 24 after the midnight hour...So in Mar we also had two thunderstorm days...
Some have asked this question many times...How do we record a thunderstorm day,what are the times valid from...Well any day one can here thunder,that is a thunderstorm day....Also we run from 12 AM to 11:59 PM so anytime that a thunder happens during that time frame that day would be considered a thunderstorm day....So lets say we get a thunderstorm at 11:45 pm on the 25,so that day would be considered a thunderstorm day...Ok then lets say the storm keeps going through 12:03 AM on the 26...So yeah the 26 would also be considered a thunderstorm day....
Zero severe thunderstorm days were recorded....
April....We had a thunderstorm on the 24 this was a non severe thunderstorm,however it did produce some small pea size hail...Sure was a nice B.day gift....We also had a thunderstorm on the 26...Two thunderstorm days...
Zero severe thunderstorms...
May...We had 3 thunderstorm days...one was on the 5 this storm was severe at it moved through Barron,Polk,St.Croix,and Dunn Counties.....This thing produced 0.75 to 1.00 inch hail...See this post http://dirksforecastingcenter.blogspot.com/2009/05/050509-chase-log.html
See this post for pictures..
http://dirksforecastingcenter.blogspot.com/2009/05/chase-pictures.html
We also saw thunderstorms on the 29 and again on the 31
One severe thunderstorm day...
June....We had 6 thunderstorm days....Days that saw thunderstorm were as follows....17,18,21,22,25,and the 27...
Zero severe thunderstorm days...
July...We had 7 thunderstorm days....Days we had thunderstorms..4,9,10,21,24,25,and the 30....
No severe thunderstorms were recorded...
Aug....We had 10 thunderstorm days....Here they are...2,3,4,8,14,15,16,19,25,28.......
We had 2 severe thunderstorm days one on the 8 and on the 19..See link below for the 8th....
http://dirksforecastingcenter.blogspot.com/2009/08/burkhardt-storm-damage-pictures.html
on the 19 we had some small tornadoes...I really don't like to call them that as they were short lived...I like to call them spin ups....No damage that I saw....
Sept...We had 2 thunderstorm days....11,and then on the 27
Zero severe thunderstorm days...
Oct....No thunderstorm days were recorded...
Nov...No thunderstorm days were recorded....
Dec no thunderstorm days were recorded...
So the the total thunderstorm days for the year 2009 stands at....34.....
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