Well we were thinking that yesterday would be calm. Guess I was wrong about that one. Things weren't too bad though. There were multiple tornadoes reported across the area. One was in Hyde county were the report actually says "no damage, just kicked up some dirt." There was also a tornado reported at the Brown County Fair. That's pretty scary given the amount of people that were probably there. However, the tornado was fairly weak and only turned over some tents.

As far as other reports, there were a handful of severe hail reports. The largest was in Norbeck which is in Faulk County at 1.75" which is golf ball size. There are multiple other reports at or below one inch. An interesting report from Hecla where hail fell off and on for about an hour. The largest was one inch. Some heavy rain was also reported in the same area as a flash flood was reported. Huron actually broke the rainfall record for August 14th at 1.88 inches, which broke the old record of 1 inch.

This was an interesting situation, given that the severe threat looked to be nearly zero and we had a few tornadoes touchdown. It wasn't the typical situation where we see supercell thunderstorms develop very large damaging tornadoes. These tornadoes seemed to be landspout tornadoes which get their rotation from the updraft rather. Larger damaging tornadoes form from the rotation of the storm they are associated with. Sometimes these landspouts are even hard to detect with the eye. Many don't even cause damage. Thankfully yesterdays situation didn't cause much damage either.