Tornado Watch cancelled for eastern North Dakota

In North Dakota, the wind advisory includes Cass, Barnes, Griggs, Steele, Traill, Ranson, Sargent, Richland and Grand Forks counties. Higher amounts up to an inch and a half are possible west where stronger storms move through.

Saturday’s muggy, 80-degree temperatures and gusty winds will be followed by a threat for severe storms in the evening. That means that air flowing outward in the upper atmosphere must be replaced by rising air.

Storms will first fire up in northwest Iowa around 5 p.m.as a cold front enters the state.

By late Sunday morning the showers and storms should be moving further south.

The Twin Cities and a large area of Minnesota will see some severe weather Saturday afternoon and evening, with weather experts predicting an “enhanced” chance of heavy thunderstorms. Then, as thunderstorms merge into squall lines farther east later in the day, the severe weather risk will change to one of mainly damaging straight-line winds.

It appeared the line would move through the heart of the metro sometime between 10 p.m. and midnight Saturday.