If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

At 135 AM CDT, an automated weather station at Smith Center reported wind gusts to just over 55 mph with rain showers associated with a wake low just behind the departing thunderstorms. These showers were moving north at 15 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph. SOURCE...Automated Weather Station. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Superior, Smith Center, Red Cloud, Franklin, Mankato, Kensington, Guide Rock, Lebanon, Burr Oak, Hardy, Bloomington, Esbon, Formoso, Riverton, Athol, Cowles, Webber, Inavale, Lovewell State Park, and Montrose.