Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Twin Cities, MN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
345 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1988

..THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  AS WELL AS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN..

AT 340 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS..SOME OF THEM STRONG..WERE DEVELOPING
RAPIDLY ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWEST PARTS OF
THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA NEAR BELLE PLAINE..NEW PRAGUE AND
CHASKA.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHESST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE
AFFECTING MUCH OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA INCLUDING LAKE MINNETONKA
THROUGH AT LEAST 500 PM. PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND
BOATING SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR SOME ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

ELSEWHERE..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG AND EAST
OF THE ST CROIX RIVER FROM NEAR STILLWATER OF THE EASTERN METRO TO
OSCEOLA AND BALSAM LAKE OF POLK COUNTY WISCONSIN.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS ACTIVITY AS OF 345 PM
BUT DUE TO THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BEAR WATCHING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
SWANBERG

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN
405 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 10 PM...

AT 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL
MINNESOTA IN MORRISON AND MILLE LACS COUNTIES AND OVER MILLE LACS
LAKE.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BE REPORTED THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...NUMEROUS   (
LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY GUSTY WINDS.

PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE
WEATHER DEVELOPS.

FRASER

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
445 PM CDT THU JUL 7 1988

..SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND
  NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AS WELL AS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 10 PM..

THUNDERSTORMS..SOME OF THEM STRONG..CONTINUED TO EXPAND IN COVERAGE
ACROSS WIDELY SCATTERED PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA INTO
NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.

AT 435 PM..STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTH DAKOTA
/MINNESOTA BORDER FROM NEAR CANBY TO GRANITE FALLS..OVER CENTRAL
MINNESOTA TO THE WEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR COSMOS AND ALSO ACROSS
SCATTERED PARTS OF THE TWIN CITIES METRO AREA.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED A LINE ACROSS EXTREME EASTERN
MINNESOTA INTO NORTHWEST WISCONSIN FROM NEAR HASTINGS AND TAYLOR FALLS
OF THE EASTERN METRO AREA THROUGH ST CROIX FALLS AND BALSAM LAKE OF
NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS
ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

YOU SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THIS WEATHER SITUATION IN CASE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS
VERY UNSTABLE SO THE POTENThIAL IS THERE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS
MINNESOTA AND WESTERN WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
SWANBERG