Weather Alerts For Zumbrota, MN

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 434 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 1 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MINNESOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA BLUE EARTH FARIBAULT FREEBORN MARTIN RICE STEELE WASECA WATONWAN IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA GOODHUE IN WISCONSIN THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHIPPEWA DUNN EAU CLAIRE PEPIN PIERCE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALBERT LEA, BLUE EARTH, CHIPPEWA FALLS, DURAND, EAU CLAIRE, FAIRMONT, FARIBAULT, MANKATO, MENOMONIE, OWATONNA, RED WING, RIVER FALLS, ST JAMES, AND WASECA. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 434

Closest strike: 2.81 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 FOR PORTIONS OF THE UPPER MIDWEST INTO THE GREAT LAKES THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST...CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms are expected across the Upper Midwest and Upper Great Lakes this evening. A couple of tornadoes are possible but damaging wind gusts are expected to be the more widespread hazard, in addition to isolated large to very large hail. Severe storms also remain a concern across parts of the central High Plains and the Northeast. Midwest and Upper Great Lakes Steadily deepening convective activity has developed across the surface boundary in southern Minnesota into northern/western Iowa. Much of this region has been under the influence of a band of mid-level cloud cover this afternoon. Comparison of the 18z and 00z observed soundings from OAX indicate inhibition has eroded. Strong buoyancy also remains across the area amid steep lapse rates and ample deep layer shear. A southerly low-level jet is progged to increase through the evening which should further support convective development. A mix of supercells and clustered multi-cell thunderstorms is expected through the evening, given largely boundary parallel shear. With the increase in the low-level jet, a tornado or two will remain possible with any more discrete supercells. Northeast A cluster of thunderstorms is advancing eastward into portions of northwestern New York just east of Lake Ontario. Sufficient instability remains across portions of central/southern New York, with more rain cooled air from several rounds of showers to the north. This cluster may pose some potential for occasional strong to severe winds downstream through the evening given remaining warm temperatures and moist profiles downstream. Central and southern High Plains Widely scattered thunderstorm activity continues near the dryline across Kansas into the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles. The strongest deep layer shear is located ahead of a short-wave impulse across western Kansas, where 30-40 kts is analyzed in SPC mesoanalysis. Steep lapse rates and deeply mixed profiles will support potential for damaging wind and large hail with supercells through the evening. Southeast Several clusters of thunderstorms continue across portions of Mississippi into eastern Louisiana/southern Arkansas this evening. A few instances of strong to severe wind will continue before gradual weakening occurs with loss of daytime heating over the next couple of hours.