If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service office in the Twin Cities.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT HENNEPIN...SOUTHEASTERN WRIGHT...NORTHWESTERN DAKOTA...NORTHEASTERN SCOTT...CENTRAL ANOKA... CARVER AND RAMSEY COUNTIES THROUGH 900 PM CDT... At 800 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Medina, or 14 miles west of Minneapolis, moving east at 35 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Minneapolis, St. Paul, Buffalo, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Eagan, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids, Eden Prairie, Burnsville, and Blaine. This includes the following highways... Interstate 94 in Minnesota between mile markers 201 and 205. U.S. Highway 12 between mile markers 127 and 140. MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH