Severe storms return to the Upper Midwest

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Tornadic risks are back in the Dakotas and Minnesota, with days of storms expected ahead.

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00:00We're tracking some thunderstorms moving through some parts of Minnesota and some less active weather.

00:05We showed you the view there from Waterloo.

00:07We've got some showers around, but they're not terribly heavy there, impacting the road surface too much.

00:12Again, Duluth kind of splitting the uprights.

00:14We want to take the satellite off and just focus on the radar aspect of that view.

00:19And you can see that really while most of us are facing only some showers, if any precipitation at all,

00:25there's a pocket of southwest Minnesota where there is some pretty intense weather.

00:28A lot of lightning out here with this cell.

00:31And you can see we're in the area near Lyon County, in Lyon County, the northern end of the county,

00:35north of Marshall, Minnesota, a relatively big point of reference there, Marshall, Minnesota,

00:40areas around Ghent and immediately east and northeast of Ghent.

00:43We are under a tornado warning as we're tracking an area of rotation within this cell,

00:49a rotating thunderstorm drifting slowly south, almost directly south.

00:54These storms have been moving almost aimlessly here,

00:56but the inflow feeding into the base of the storm, helping to lead this storm to drift a little farther south.

01:02You can see earlier a severe cell pulled northeast.

01:04This one's hooking it almost directly south now, north of Marshall, Minnesota.

01:09Minneapolis, a couple of showers off to the east, now crossing the river into western Wisconsin.

01:13But the risk for severe storms is still present tonight in the eastern North Dakota,

01:16northeastern South Dakota, and a good chunk of central and northern Minnesota.

01:19Yes, there is the risk for an isolated tornado, but large hail and damaging wind will be the bigger concerns among these storms.

01:26There's some risk for severe storms tonight.

01:29Tomorrow, big green zone from the Black Hills all the way into western parts of northern Michigan.

01:35So thunderstorms will be out there for some, but it's going to be pretty hot farther south.

01:39The heat will build.

01:40So future radar, well, let's press pause here on Friday afternoon.

01:434 p.m., thunderstorms in Duluth.

01:45This is going to be problematic here from Lake Country, Millilocks, all the way east into Duluth,

01:50and then scattered storms in the northern parts of Iowa.

01:52Sioux Falls, scattered thunderstorms will be around as well.

01:55And these are going to be pretty heavy into northern Wisconsin and the upper part of Michigan into Friday night.

02:00So there's a risk of severe storms here.

02:01But then a new episode breaks out from the Black Hills into the northern plains.

02:05And, again, the traffic is very, very active here.

02:08Look at that expanding and running across the ridge on the north side of the ridge through Minneapolis into Saturday

02:14with more storms firing up southern Minnesota, northern Iowa, still South Dakota day after day with strong thunderstorms.

02:21So Saturday's forecast as we kick off the weekend, we have a storm zone here from Scotts Bluff to Rapid City to Bismarck,

02:27Fargo, Watertown, Minneapolis, and Duluth.

02:29The lightning bolts continue east here into Green Bay and Sault Ste. Marie.

02:32Farther south, the heat is on.

02:34Look at North Platte at 98 degrees, 98 in St. Louis.

02:38We're forecasting 100 in Sunday's forecast for St. Louis.

02:42But, again, storminess here and there Friday and Saturday.

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