Tornado watch until 10 p.m. just north of the Twin Cities area

The severe weather risk for Minnesota continues this Wednesday evening.

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch until 10 p.m. for central MInnesota including the far northern Twin Cities area.

Here’s the watch text from NOAA.

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 406 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

655 PM CDT Wed Jun 12 2024 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of Central and Eastern Minnesota Northwest Wisconsin

* Effective this Wednesday evening from 655 PM until 1000 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include... A couple tornadoes possible Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3 inches in diameter likely Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY...Several supercells will continue east-southeast and traverse a moist/unstable airmass in an environment with increasing low-level shear. Large to very large hail (2-3 inches in diameter), damaging gusts, and a couple of tornadoes are possible. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 45 statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west northwest of Saint Cloud MN to 100 miles east northeast of Saint Cloud MN.