Tornado Warning 5, NWS Twin Cities, MN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
445 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT...
   FOR SOUTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST MINNESOTA...ALONG WITH
   NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...

AT 430 PM CDT...A BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD
DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHEAST MINNESOTA SINCE 330 PM CDT.

THIS NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES WEST OF
CLOQUET..TO JUST NORTHEAST OF ELY..IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. POSSIBLY
HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING NEAR THE TOWN OF CROMWELL.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ANOTHER SMALL AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD ALSO
DEVELOPED ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MINNESOTA..FROM 5 MILES
NORTH OF MARSHALL..TO 5 MILES EAST OF WILLMAR.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG AN
APPROACHING COLD FRONT. AT 3 PM CDT..THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM
EXTENDED FROM NEAR ELY IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA..ACROSS CENTRAL
MINNESOTA..TO SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA..THEN INTO WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA..SEEK SHELTER.
SJC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN
515 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA UNTIL 10PM CDT...

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS
AFTERNOON BUT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM
CDT. AT 510 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WAS LOCATED IN BENTON COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FOLEY MINNESOTA OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST. CLOUD. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

A SIGNIFICANT DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM IS LIGHTNING. BOATERS
SHOULD GET OFF THE LAKE...GOLFERS HEAD TO THE CLUB HOUSE...BALL
PLAYERS MOVE OFF THE DIAMONDS...ANY ONE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES OUT OF THE AREA.

WDV

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
549 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT...
   FOR SOUTHWEST THROUGH NORTHEAST MINNESOTA...ALONG WITH
   NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...

AT 530 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED ACROSS NORTHEAST..EAST CENTRAL..CENTRAL..AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED..BOTH IN INTENSITY AND IN AREAL
COVERAGE SINCE 430 PM.

THIS AREA WAS LOCATED 20 MILES TO EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM THE DULUTH-
TWO HARBORS AREA..TO MCGRATH..THEN THROUGH THE TOWNS OF MORA AND FOLEY..
THROUGH ST CLOUD..TO SOUTH OF WILLMAR..THEN STRETCHED SOUTH WEST TO
JUST NORTH OF MARSHALL.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
.
ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 65 MPH WIND GUSTS AS IT PASSED
THROUGH THE TOWN OF CLOQUET..IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA..JUST SOUTHWEST
OF DULUTH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEPOSITING MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND
HEAVY RAIN IN THE FOLEY AND ST CLOUD AREA..ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY
RAIN..AND HAIL. LIGHTNING IS ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR PASSAGE EASTWARD ACROSS MINNESOTA.

SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER APPROACH YOUR AREA..TAKE COVER.
SJC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN
630 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS APPRAOCHING THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL LOCATED JUST NORTH
OF THE TWIN CITIES HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.  THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED PASS THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN AREA THIS
EVENING.  GUSTY WINDS..HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO REACH
WRIGHT COUNTY AND ISANTI COUNTIES JUST TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF
THE TWIN CITIES BY 700 PM.  THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD
BRING THEN ACROSS ANOKA COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN HENNEPIN COUNTY BY
800 PM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SECTION OF
MINNESOTA INCLUDING THE TWIN CITIES UNTIL 1000 PM.  THOSE OURDOORS
THIS EVENING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.  ALLOW
PLENTY OF TIME TO GET OFF AREA LAKES.  KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND
LISTEN FOR LATVER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
WJH

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST. CLOUD MN
710 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 1988

...ATTN SELS...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FROM 29 JUL 1988...

540 PM CDT  1/2 INCH HAIL IN CITY OF ST. CLOUD.
550 PM CDT  GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT MILACA IN MILLE LACS COUNTY...
            28 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST. CLOUD.
605 PM CDT  GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT 5 MILES EAST OF MILACA.
605 PM CDT  3/4 INCH HAIL 7 MILES EAST OF ST. CLOUD IN BENTON COUNTY.
625 PM CDT  3/4 INCH HAIL AT LITCHFIELD MINNESOTA IN MEEKER COUNTY...
            35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. CLOUD.
614-632 PM CDT  CONTINOUS HAIL AT THE ST. CLOUD NATIONAL WEATHER
            SERVICE OFFICE.  NUMEROUS STONES 1 INCH.
545-6 PM CDT PUBLIC REPORT OF HEAVY HAIL SHOWER 8 MILES SOUTH OF ST.
             CLOUD.  SEVERAL CHUNKS OF 3 INCH SIZE.

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