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:: SPC on the Verge

The Storm Prediction Center is on the verge of issuing a watch box for MN this afternoon, as indicated by Mesoscale Discussion 722:

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A line of showers quickly developed in western MN, and is racing due east at around 35 mph, should clip the metro with some sprinkles. Behind that, however, the dryline has re-establihshed, per satellite imagrey, and the line of heavier cells we have been awaiting is firing from Sioux Falls to Yankton:

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