Marginal severe risk with scattered storms again Wednesday

It’s another day of scattered rain and a few thunderstorms across Minnesota. Wednesday’s atmospheric wind profile is capable of producing isolated storms with damaging winds.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center has laid out a marginal risk for severe storms across much of central and southern Minnesota. Check out the map above.

Here’s the view for northern Minnesota:

The discussion for Wednesday’s storm potential over Minnesota highlights the potential for damaging winds across parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin:

...MN/WI to the Mid-Atlantic this afternoon/evening... Surface heating and lingering boundary-layer moisture will contribute to weak-moderate buoyancy in an environment with sufficient westerly deep-layer shear/hodograph length for scattered, low-topped cells to produce isolated severe gusts and marginally severe hail this afternoon across MN/WI.

NOAA’s Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core model gives you the idea of scattered strong cells drifting southeastward Wednesday afternoon. The forecast model loop below runs between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Temperatures Wednesday afternoon will hover in the 70s across Minnesota.

Thursday brings cooler air with some 50s and 60s across much of northern and central Minnesota.

Temperatures moderate back into the 70s Friday through the upcoming weekend.