Upper Midwest including Wisconsin Minnesota & Iowa brace for severe thunderstorms & tornadoes Monday

WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS & TORNADOES FORECAST MONDAY 4/29/2025 FOR MUCH OF THE UPPER MIDWEST.

STATES INCLUDE MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, IOWA,MISSOURI, ILLINOIS

METRO AREAS INCLUDE: Minneapolis, MN…St. Paul, MN…Des Moines, IA…Cedar Rapids, IA…Rochester, MN..Kansas City, MO…Omaha, NE…Madison, WI…Overland Park, KS…Rockford, IL…

Monday is gonig to be a very busy day in the Upper Midwest as a storm develops in the Northern Plains and moves eastward. A strong inflow of warm unstable air will surge northward up the Mississippi River Valley creating a highly unstable atmosphere. The result could be a widespread regional outbreak of severe thunderstorms and the potential for EF2-EF5 tornadoes which can be long lived and leave a wide path of destruction. The Storm Prediction Center is indicating a “moderate risk” or a 45% percent chance for severe thunderstorms across much of Western Wisconsin, Southern Minnesota, and a large portion of the state of Iowa.

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