Late-night storms could pose serious risks to the Upper Midwest

AccuWeather forecasters warn that there could be explosive development of severe storms in and around North Dakota on the night of June 27.

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00:00But as of right now, just severe storms across parts of Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia.

00:04But as we zoom out, the main area that we're going to be watching out for as far as the overall threat

00:09and potential of severe weather is going to be across parts of the Northern Plains,

00:12especially the Dakotas and Nebraska.

00:15You can see a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings ongoing there across parts of South Dakota right now.

00:20But overall, as we head into this evening, take a look at this.

00:22This is an updated look at our AccuWeather exclusive storm zone.

00:25And this storm zone is going to extend from the High Plains of Colorado all the way through into southern parts of Canada as well.

00:31But overall, this is what we're mainly looking at, this bullseye here across North Dakota.

00:35That's where it looks like we'll see the highest potential of severe storms.

00:39Large hail, damaging winds, flooding rainfall, even an elevated tornado threat will be possible across this entire region.

00:45In fact, we have two separate severe thunderstorm watches in effect there across parts of South Dakota and Nebraska.

00:51But for that AccuWeather exclusive storm zone level two on our risk impact scale,

00:55this is where we have a tornado watch in effect here until 1 a.m. central time, midnight mountain time.

01:02So that's what we're going to be tracking there, especially across parts of North Dakota.

01:05Future track radar is going to be showing how the development will happen.

01:09But overall, we're still tracking some of those, yes, severe storms there across the I-90 corridor between Rapid City and Sioux Falls.

01:15But future track radar, once again, showing the continuing development and potential explosive development of these storms,

01:22especially across parts of Nebraska and South Dakota.

01:25But as after 8 o'clock, after sunset, we're mainly going to be watching this area, the storm zone to the north.

01:31That's where it looks like we'll see the most explosive development, the strongest storms,

01:35as we head into about 9, 10, 11 p.m. right around midnight.

01:38You can see those storms working the way along the I-94 corridor between Bismarck over towards Fargo.

01:44So we're going to be watching out for some very powerful storms developing here as we head into tonight.

01:48Even as we head into the overnight hours, these storms will continue along the I-94 corridor there into western parts of Minnesota.

01:55And you can see the storms will continue there even through Minneapolis for your early Saturday morning.

02:00So in Minneapolis, even if you have some early morning plans there on Saturday, expect rain,

02:05expect some storms to be moving in right around sunrise there for your early Saturday.