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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Paul Huttner

Severe Outbreak: Damaging storms deliver

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Severe T-Storm watch until 11 pm includes Twin Cities. Wind damage reported.

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NOAA has issued a tornado watch until 9 pm for most of central Minnesota including the western edge of the Twin Cities metro. Severe storms moving through Minnesota today have the capability to produce tornadoes, large hail to 3" in diameter and widespread damaging wind events. Flash flooding is also possible.

 

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NOAA

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 323

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

205 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA

EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

* EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 205 PM UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...A COUPLE INTENSE TORNADOES POSSIBLE SCATTERED DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY WITH ISOLATED SIGNIFICANT GUSTS TO 75 MPH POSSIBLE

SCATTERED LARGE HAIL LIKELY WITH ISOLATED VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE

SUMMARY...THUNDERSTORMS...INCLUDING SUPERCELLS AND CLUSTERS/BANDS OF OTHER INTENSE STORMS...EXPECTED TO MOVE/DEVELOP GENERALLY EAST OR EAST-SOUTHEAST ACROSS WATCH AREA THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. SOME STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...AND TORNADOES.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA MINNESOTA TO 40 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF BROOKINGS SOUTH DAKOTA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).