“Potentially catastrophic” flash floods and tornadoes rake Minnesota
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Talk about a crazy weather day.
Multiple tornado touchdowns and widespread flash floods belted Minnesota Monday.
Tornadoes touched down in Litchfield, Watkins and near St. Cloud according to NWS reports.
Damage is reported in Litchfield.
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Potentialy catastrophic lash flood event in central Minnesota
A stalled warm front through central Minnesota produced torrential "training" echoes on Doppler, and rainfall totals between 4" and 8" as of post time (and still raining) across a big chunk of central Minnesota. I can't ever recall seeing a tweet this dire from a local NWS office.
Here's the storm total rainfall map as of Monday evening from the Duluth NWS.
Here's the storm total rainfall from the Twin Cities NWS.
The Kettle River below Sandstone was up more than 3 feet and rising fast Monday evening.
Our weather improves this week as low pressure gradually slides east.
