Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Twin Cities, MN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
215 PM CDT MON JUL 20 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 404 CANCELED FOR EAST CENTRAL
   MINNESOTA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
ISSUED EARLIER FOR EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WHICH INCLUDED THE TWIN CITIES
METRO AREA.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF MINNESOTA AND INTO WEST
WISCONSIN.

WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL PRESENT OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA JUST
SOUTH OF THE TWIN CITIES...THUNDERSTORMS COULD REDEVELOP LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DURING THE AFTERNOON.
JHM

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
250 PM CDT MON JUL 20 1987

AT 235 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER WEST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN FROM 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE NEAR FAIRCHILD TO 40
MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE NEAR MONDOVI.

VERY HEAVY RAINS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE
 EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STORMS SHOULD BE LOCATED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR BLACK RIVER FALLS TO
25 MILES NORTH OF LA CROSSE BY 315 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES EAST OF HAYWARD TO 25 MILES WEST OF WAUSAU TO#
SOUTH OF EAU CLAIRE.
STANDFIELD
JHM

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
345 PM CDT MON JUL 20 1987

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN....

AT 330 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
35 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE JUST NORTH AND WEST OF BLACK RIVER FALLS.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE LOCATED
JUST NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE TO NORTH OF TOMAH BY 415 PM CDT.

VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE
 EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS.

ELSEWHERE..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER WEST CENTRAL
MINNESOTA FROM THE MINNESOTA/SOUTHI DAKOTA BORDER NEAR BIG STONE LAKE
TO WEST OF ALEXANDRIA TO 35 MILES SOUTH OF DETROIT LAKES.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. STANDFIELD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
615 PM CDT MON JUL 20 1987

    ..THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE LAKE MINNETONKA AREA..

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WESTERN HENNEPIN
COUNTY IN THE MOUND AND INDEPENDENCE AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS SLOWLY
MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AND IT WILL MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF LAKE
MINNETONKA THROUGH 700 PM.

SOME LIGHTNING..GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

PERSONS BOATING OR FISHING ON LAKE MINNETONKA SHOULD MAKE PLANS NOW TO
HEAD FOR SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS PASS BY THE LAKE.

AT 615 PM CDT..OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER SCOTT..WESTERN ANOKA
AND WRIGHT COUNTIES OF THE WESTERN METROPOLITAN AREA.

THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
SWANBERG