00:00Big changes are on the way for the north central U.S. Warming air is returning, setting the stage for severe storms from Colorado through the Dakotas, with damaging winds and large hail likely as we head into tomorrow.
00:11While the plains brace for storms, the northeast is trending dry. Cooler nights are settling in, but a continued lack of rain is increasing wildfire danger across the region.
00:20We want to take you now to St. Paul, Minnesota, though. This is where we've been tracking some rain and thunderstorms.
00:26Things look to have improved a little bit in St. Paul, but certainly this is not where the worst of things are in Minnesota and now kind of heading into Wisconsin.
00:33Yeah, most of the strong storms is now starting to make that transition from Minnesota into Wisconsin right there.
00:39But yeah, we will still be watching out for some strong to severe storms possible, even as we head into this evening and as we head into tonight.
00:44So here's the latest that we're tracking on radar. I have the lightning on here as well.
00:48It kind of lets the stronger storms really pop out here whenever you're taking the 30,000 foot view, right?
00:53So overall, what we're going to be watching out for is those strong storms continuing here across parts of Minnesota into Wisconsin.
00:59Now, this line overall, you can see the intensity of this line has really come down substantially, I would say, especially over the last hour or so.
01:06When these storms were moving through parts of Minnesota, they were definitely packing a much stronger punch.
01:11But we're still going to be watching out for possibly some brief heavy downpours of rain and even a lot of lightning as well.
01:16We've been showing you videos of lightning strikes, so definitely not something that you want to have to deal with here as we head into your Friday evening, right?
01:22But as we zoom back out, we're going to be watching out for more storms here.
01:25And we were talking about the storms across the Rockies.
01:29We have still some severe storms to watch out for here across parts of the four corner states.
01:34You can see some storms. We had some severe storms there in Arizona.
01:38As I freeze frame the radar, we currently have a severe storm there in Gila County in Arizona.
01:43And I also want to point out that, yes, we're still going to be watching out for the potential of severe storms here with this cluster across parts of Arizona into New Mexico.
01:50There will definitely be some severe weather possible there.
01:53We also have this one little mini storm right there.
01:55Anytime you get a stationary storm that's pretty much on an island by itself, that's definitely going to be capable of producing some severe hail.
02:04So we'll be watching out for that potential as well.
02:05Going on up the line, we have multiple areas of showers and storms across parts of Colorado, especially western Colorado.
02:11We have some strong storms about to work their way into the heart of the Rockies right there across Colorado.
02:16And we also have some storms now developing across parts of Wyoming and North Dakota.
02:22So for western county in Wyoming, we have a severe thunderstorm warning.
02:25We have a severe thunderstorm warning in Bauman County there in North Dakota as well.
02:28So we'll be keeping you up to date with the latest on that.
02:30But as we zoom in, we have other areas that we'll be watching that need to be watched for that potential of severe weather heading into this evening as well.
02:37Here's the overall setup of what we're tracking as we head into tonight.
02:40There will be the highest potential of severe weather just to the east of the I-25 corridor here across the high plains.
02:46So large hail, flooding rainfall, and yes, even damaging winds will be possible as we head into tonight.
02:51We could see winds gusting up to 70 miles an hour.
02:54So and as we head into tonight, damaging winds, even power outage potential will be possible heading into early Saturday morning.
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