Hook Echo Near Milaca (tornado watch until midnight)

* AT 756 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ONE MILE SOUTH OF ST MICHAEL.  RADAR ALSO SHOWED THIS TORNADO NEAR ST MICHAEL...OR 10 MILES EAST OF BUFFALO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* 2.5" hail reported at Golden Valley.
* 1.75" diameter hail at Minneapolis.
* Reports of a possible funnel cloud near Hopkins.


Hook Echo Near Pease/Milaca. Doppler at 9:15 pm shows a possible tornado forming just south/east of Milaca. Details from the National Weather Service:
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN ISANTI...
SOUTHWESTERN KANABEC AND SOUTH CENTRAL MILLE LACS COUNTIES UNTIL 930
PM CDT...

AT 914 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS STORM
WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEASE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MILACA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DALBO...LEWIS LAKE...OGILVIE AND BOCK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN THE TWIN CITIES.

Tornado Watch Expanded To Include Metro Area Until Midnight. The latest from SPC.