The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for western Stearns County at 11:30 Monday night and it stayed in affect until 12:15 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Severe weather is a possibility for much of Minnesota and Wisconsin tonight. I talked with meteorologist Megan Mulford from the National Weather Service. She says to have a thunderstorm 3 ingredients are needed; moisture, instability and lift.
Minnesota was one of many Midwestern states that saw violate weather on Memorial Day. Temperatures in Minnesota were in the upper 60s to low 70s which rarely triggers severe storms. Weather Eye Meterologist Cara Foster says the reason why Minnesota saw storms was the shifting of the jet stream which caused a shifting of precipitation.