Ugh, Another Moderate Risk Today, Another Possible Severe Outbreak, And It’s All On The Weekend

I know, I know, kill the messenger already why don’t you? Another Moderate Risk of Severe Storms for the area during the afternoon and evening Saturday, in which we will be watching for tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds. The worse part? It’s on one of the many, many busy Minnesotan weekends where people have [...]

…TORNADO WATCH for Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Twin Cities until 4 PM…

It is now time to start preparing for the possibility of tornadoes in and around the area through the afternoon time frame. A Tornado Watch is now in effect for the area until 4 PM this afternoon. We will be watching for tornadoes, especially with storm initiation, before we see this morph (even by early [...]

*Moderate Risk*: Tornadoes, Hail, Wind today… More Severe Tomorrow?

I have to make this a quick post before I head out to work, but we do have a MODERATE RISK of Severe Storms over the area today. We are looking at storm initiation in the late afternoon hours to our west, with tornadoes and very large hail possible in the first few hours of [...]

Severe Weather Possible Today

We are under a slight risk of severe storms for the late afternoon and evening hours today, meanwhile the southern part of the state is under a Moderate Risk. We are watching for possible tornadoes at the start of the storms in SW MN back into NE, along with large hail early in storms. Eventually [...]

New Meso Discussion Calls For Continuation of Tornatic Supercells

We are still watching for the development of supercells capable of large hail and tornadoes. Already some storms are showing rotation and there has been reports of 2.5″ hail. Stay tuned for the latest. MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0990 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0331 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 AREAS AFFECTED…WRN/CNTRL MN…WRN IA…ERN NEB [...]

Severe Weather Later Today — Read for the timeline

Today is definitely a Severe Weather Alert Day. We are under a Moderate Risk of Severe Thunderstorms as a cold front moves through the area. Warm and humid air in front of this system will help to ignite severe thunderstorms over MN, the Dakotas, and IA along the cold front. These storms will be capable [...]

1 AM Update: Moderate Risk of Severe Storms TODAY

To steal a line from the original Iron Chef series, “Bang a gong, we are on!” The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Moderate Risk of Severe Weather over most of the state of Minnesota (minus the northern part) for Thursday. Tornadoes are possible early on, but this is now looking to be a wind [...]

Moderate Severe Weather Risk: Tornado Threat

The Set-Up The STC area is under a slight risk of severe weather today, but just miles south of the St. Cloud area and stretching far into Iowa is under a moderate risk of severe weather – the moderate risk is as close as the Annandale area. Right now we have a cap on the [...]