{"id":70764,"date":"2026-06-06T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=70764"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:48:41","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-in-southern-saskatchewan-and-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/70764","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/06\/260606_goes19_visible_glmFlashPoints_SK_MB.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of GLM Flash Points, from 1752 UTC on 06 June to 0101 UTC on 07 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> and Infrared Window images <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the development of supercell thunderstorms in parts of southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba on<strong> <\/strong>06<strong> <\/strong>June<strong> <\/strong>2026. GOES-19 GLM Flash Points highlighted the abundant lightning activity that was associated with these thunderstorms. The supercell thunderstorms developed in the vicinity of a cold frontal boundary &#8212; and produced hail as large as 2&#8243; in diameter, and also prompted the issuance of tornado warnings in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/06\/260606_goes19_infrared_glmFlashPoints_SK_MB.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1-minute GOES-19 Infrared Window images with an overlay of GLM Flash Points, from 1752 UTC on 06 June to 0101 UTC on 07 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A toggle between GOES-19 Visible and Infrared Window images at 2145 UTC <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> included a cursor sample of the coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature of the Manitoba thunderstorm, wich was -68.18C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/06\/260606_2145utc_goes19_visible_infrared_MB_anim.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toggle between GOES-19 Visible and Infrared Window images at 2145 UTC on 06 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A toggle between GOES-19 Visible and Infrared Window images at 2335 UTC <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> included a cursor sample of the coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature for the Saskatchewan thunderstorm, which was -68.67C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/06\/260606_2335utc_goes19_visible_infrared_SK_anim.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toggle between GOES-19 Visible and Infrared Window images at 2335 UTC on 06 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) and Infrared Window images (below) showed the development of supercell thunderstorms in parts of southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba on 06 June 2026. GOES-19 GLM Flash Points highlighted the abundant lightning activity that was associated with these thunderstorms. The supercell thunderstorms developed in the vicinity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,159,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-19","category-lightning","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70764"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70788,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70764\/revisions\/70788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}