This Week’s Rains Push St. Cloud Above Average For June

UNDATED (WJON News) -- St. Cloud added to this week's rainfall total Thursday.

We officially had another .66 of an inch at the St. Cloud Regional Airport.

The rain total in St. Cloud this week is 2.71 inches.

We're up to 5.70 inches for the month so far, which is 2.46 inches above normal.

Last year in June, we had 5.83 inches.

The wettest June on record in St. Cloud was in 1920 when we had 10.56 inches of rain.

Another round of severe weather on Thursday afternoon in Freeborn County in far southern Minnesota. The National Weather Service says a trained spotter confirmed a tornado was on the ground a few miles west of Hayward around 1:30 pm.

There were also downed trees and power lines in the Albert Lea area.

Officials say a funnel cloud or possible tornado was caught on video near Owatonna, but you see whether it touched down. Several communities had street flooding yesterday.

These storms came after at least a half dozen tornado reports on Wednesday in southern Minnesota. The tornado that damaged a farm near Hartland was rated an EF-1 with wind speeds up to 105 miles per hour.

Strong or severe thunderstorms are possible on Friday.

Additional storms are possible Saturday into Sunday, some of which may be strong or severe.

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The weekly update on Thursday from the U.S. Drought Monitor says Minnesota is still 53 percent Abnormally Dry, and 11 percent of the state is in a Moderate Drought.  The driest areas remain in northern Minnesota. Thursday's update is from rainfall through Tuesday morning and does not include the rain we had on Wednesday and Thursday.

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