Weather Alerts For Leota, MN

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Osceola County in northwestern Iowa... Dickinson County in northwestern Iowa... Northern Clay County in northwestern Iowa... Eastern O'Brien County in northwestern Iowa... Jackson County in southwestern Minnesota... Southeastern Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota... - Until 315 AM CDT. - At 220 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Ocheyedan to near Melvin to near Hartley, moving east at 50 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 70 mph wind gusts. SOURCE Public. This line of storms is producing gusts between 65 and 70 mph. IMPACT Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR - Hartley, Everly, Ocheyedan, and Harris around 225 AM CDT. Spencer In Clay County, Lake Park, and Round Lake around 230 AM CDT. Milford, Arnolds Park, Wahpeton, West Okoboji, and Fostoria around 235 AM CDT. Spirit Lake, Okoboji, and Orleans around 240 AM CDT. - Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include Terril, Superior, Lost Island Lake and Jackson In Jackson County. ISSUED AT Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 2:21 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD HEADER BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Severe Thunderstorm Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. They will send your report to the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls. Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 420 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST IOWA BUENA VISTA CHEROKEE CLAY DICKINSON LYON O'BRIEN OSCEOLA PLYMOUTH SIOUX IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA IDA WOODBURY IN MINNESOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA JACKSON NOBLES ROCK IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA DAKOTA DIXON IN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA CLAY LINCOLN MINNEHAHA TURNER UNION THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALCESTER, ALLEN, ARNOLDS PARK, BATTLE CREEK, BERESFORD, CANTON, CENTERVILLE, CHANCELLOR, CHEROKEE, ELK POINT, GEORGE, HARRISBURG, HARTLEY, HAWARDEN, HOLSTEIN, HULL, HURLEY, IDA GROVE, INWOOD, IRENE, JACKSON, JEFFERSON, LAKEFIELD, LARCHWOOD, LE MARS, LENNOX, LUVERNE, MARION, MILFORD, NORTH SIOUX CITY, ORANGE CITY, PARKER, PONCA, ROCK RAPIDS, ROCK VALLEY, SANBORN, SHELDON, SIBLEY, SIOUX CENTER, SIOUX CITY, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH SIOUX CITY, SPENCER, SPIRIT LAKE, STORM LAKE, TEA, VERMILLION, VIBORG, WAKEFIELD, AND WORTHINGTON. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 420

Closest strike: 3.6 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Enhanced Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PORTIONS OF THE MIDWEST AND CENTRAL PLAINS SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms are expected this evening across the Dakotas, Upper Midwest and Middle Missouri Valley, including damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes. Northern Plains and Midwest Thunderstorm activity has initiated across eastern Nebraska near the cold front this evening, with additional areas of towering cu noted into northern Kansas. As the low-level jet strengthens and ascent increases with the approaching wave, it is likely additional thunderstorm development will occur into the evening. Guidance suggests that a mix of supercells and multi-cell clusters will emerge and spread east northeastward into far southeastern SD/northwestern IA and western MN. Strong to extreme instability and steep lapse rates downstream will likely support potential for damaging wind, with some significant gusts 75+ mph possible. Large to very large hail will also be possible where supercells can maintain semi-discrete mode. An upgrade to Enhanced was made with this update to account for this potential. See MCD#1386 for additional information on the short term severe potential. Further north across eastern North Dakota into western/central Minnesota near the surface low/warm front interface, potential will continue for supercells capable of all hazards including large hail, damaging wind, and strong tornadoes. See MCD#1387 for more information. Southwest Texas to the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles Thunderstorm activity continues across southwestern Texas into the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles near the dryline. Very warm temperatures and dry mixed boundary layer conditions will continue to pose some potential for damaging winds until sunset this evening. Georgia into northern Florida Peninsula A cluster of thunderstorms continues to move southwestward across southern/central Georgia this evening. Ahead of this cluster, hot and moderately unstable conditions will continue to pose potential for water loaded downdrafts that my produce strong to severe winds.