(KNSI) – The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until midnight.
A tornado watch has been issued for counties in the yellow shaded area, including Benton, Meeker, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties. Primary threats include tornadoes, scattered damaging winds, and isolated gusts to 75 miles an hour. Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail up to 2 inches in diameter are likely.
Have a way to get weather warnings through the evening hours, especially after dark.
The Storm Prediction Center says the watch comes amid a very moist and unstable airmass to the south of a warm front.
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