national weather service

A few rounds of showers and thunderstorms are possible Wednesday and Wednesday night. Large hail, damaging wind gusts, and isolated tornadoes are possible. Locally excessive rainfall is also a concern.

The back sweat is real.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected through much of the day Tuesday, with a severe storm or two possible in the afternoon into the evening.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for our listening area Thursday. It is in effect until 1:00 p.m. and it includes pretty much all of central and southern Minnesota.

Strong to severe storms could develop later Wednesday evening over southwest Minnesota and move toward east central Minnesota and west central Wisconsin after midnight.

Scattered storms will redevelop this afternoon, with the best chance of storms Tuesday evening. Some of the storms could be severe.

Rain will change to snow late tonight and Saturday morning, with snowfall rates of 1-2” per hour possible over southern Minnesota.

The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning for Stearns County and areas to the west and south. There is also a Winter Storm Warning for Benton and Sherburne Counties along with several other counties in central and eastern Minnesota.

With the pending blizzard expected to hit Wednesday, the National Weather Service is cancelling the statewide tornado drill for Thursday and Friday. However, individual counties are still planning to move forward with the drill.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Mississippi River in St. Cloud to begin Wednesday morning.

The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday.

We are highly confident a powerful winter storm will bring a narrow band of heavy snow and strong wind late Saturday into Sunday, but we still can't say where exactly the storm track will be.