Expires:201305181030;Remove:201305181030;321511
FPUS73 KMPX 180831
NOWMPX
SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
330 AM CDT SAT MAY 18 2013

MNZ041>045-047>059-064>067-075>078-083>085-181030-
BENTON-BLUE EARTH-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DOUGLAS-GOODHUE-ISANTI-KANABEC-
KANDIYOHI-LAC QUI PARLE-LE SUEUR-MCLEOD-MEEKER-MILLE LACS-MORRISON-
NICOLLET-POPE-RENVILLE-RICE-SHERBURNE-SIBLEY-STEARNS-STEELE-STEVENS-
SWIFT-TODD-WASECA-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...BENSON...CAMBRIDGE...
HUTCHINSON...MANKATO...MILACA...MONTEVIDEO...OWATONNA...RED WING...
ST CLOUD...ST PETER...WILLMAR
330 AM CDT SAT MAY 18 2013
.NOW...
VERY HEAVY BRIEF FLOODING TYPES OF SHOWERS...AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HAIL...ARE MOVING OVER THE REGION FROM THE EASTERN DAKOTAS INTO THE
CENTRAL THIRD OF MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...THEN
OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.
THE MOST ACTIVE LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING TOWARDS EASTERN MINNESOTA
FROM MANKATO...GAYLORD GLENCOE...LITCHFIELD AND LONG PRAIRIE TOWARDS
I-35 AND FARIBAULT TO THE TWIN CITY METRO...THEN FROM THE TWIN CITIES
TO PRINCETON...LAKE MILLE LACS...AND BRAINERD.
LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLY THIS MORNING IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA NEAR
SAUK CENTRE...TO THE WEST OF ST CLOUD. MOST OF THE HAIL IS A HALF
INCH OR SMALLER.
AN ESTIMATED 1 TO 3 INCHES OF HEAVY RAIN FELL ACROSS RANDALL AND CAMP
RIPLEY TO THE NORTH OF LITTLE FALLS.
PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL HEAVY RAIN FALLS WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES AND HAIL
ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND NEAR I-94 FROM FARGO MOOREHEAD TO ALEXANDRIA
AND ST CLOUD...THEN NORTHWARD TO LONG PRAIRIE...LITTLE FALLS...
BRAINERD AND LAKE MILLE LACS THROUGH 600 AM THIS MORNING.
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