Tornado Threat: Stearns County

 

Tornado Warning Far Northwest Suburbs & St. Cloud Area. A smaller cell near Becker and Clearwater, a much larger cell pushing across Stearns County (numerous reports of tornado touchdowns with this cell - hail estimates up to 2" in diameter. Latest from the local NWS:

1). A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL WRIGHT...
SOUTHEASTERN STEARNS AND WESTERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM
CDT...

AT 518 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANNANDALE...OR 16
MILES NORTHWEST OF BUFFALO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HALF DOLLAR
SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLEARWATER...HASTY...CLEAR LAKE...ENFIELD...BECKER...MONTICELLO...
  BIG LAKE...SANTIAGO AND SILVER CREEK.


2). A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL STEARNS COUNTY
UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

AT 526 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW MUNICH...OR 25 MILES WEST OF ST CLOUD...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

LARGE HAIL IS ALSO EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM... POSSIBLY LARGER THAN
GOLF BALL IN SIZE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALBANY...FARMING...AVON...COLLEGEVILLE...ST JOSEPH...PLEASANT
  LAKE...ST STEPHEN...WAITE PARK...SARTELL...LUXEMBURG AND ROCKVILLE.