June 28th/29th, 2007 Montana and Alberta Supercells
Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 21:11 Written by Roger Hill
Stunning supercell near Milk River, Alberta Canada. Photo
courtesy of Melanie Kern.
June 28 and 29 took us to the far northlands of Montana and southern Alberta. June 28th's storms developed near Glacier National Park and moved north near Conrad, MT. These storms were quite electrified and produced nickel sized hail.
On June 29th, we decided to head across the border to Canada and play supercells developing off the higher terrain west of Milk River and move northeast. We intercepted the prettiest supercell I have ever witnessed in Canada! It pummeled the border crossing with golfball to tennisball sized hail and damaged many vehicles.
Click on the video still below for a larger image.
Conrad, MT June 28th.. |
Very electrified storm. |
Another cell farther southwest from Conrad. |
First supercell of the day on the 29th in Alberta. West of Milk River. |
Another supercell farther south near the border. This would become the storm of the day. |
Wide shot of both supercells. |
Storm gets better organized, including inflow band. |
Gorgeous hybrid LP supercell producing 2" diameter hail. |
Tighter shot of the storm. Beautifully structured with striations, rounded and lowered base and vault region. |
Another supercell near dusk west of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Nice liberty bell produced tennisball sized hail and very strong winds. |
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