Lingering Tornado Threat

Update: 6:25 pm. I'm still getting a strong rotation signature almost directly over downtown St. Cloud, the cell overhead is still capable of dropping a tornado, the tornado warning has been extended to 7 pm. This storm has a history of spawning tornadoes - reports of damage near Spicer from a tornado earlier this afternoon, so please take the threat seriously.

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
618 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL STEARNS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
NORTHWESTERN SHERBURNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
SOUTHERN BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 618 PM CDT...RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE STORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS NEAR WAITE
PARK...OR ABOUT OVER WAITE PARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
SARTELL...
ST CLOUD...
SAUK RAPIDS...
PARENT...
DUELM...
FOLEY...
SANTIAGO...
RONNEBY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON RADAR...IT MEANS THAT
STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY
BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.