1. The afternoon will be hazy, warm and humid with temperatures around 30 degrees.

2. Between 3 and 4 p.m., clouds will quickly develop into thunderstorms in Carver, western Hennepin and Wright counties.

3. Thunderstorms with heavy hail, heavy rain, damaging winds over 65 mph, and tornadoes are possible over the western suburbs west of I-35W between 4 and 5 p.m.

4. 5:00pm-6:00pm Severe thunderstorms with large hail, heavy rain, damaging winds over 65mph, and tornadoes will occur primarily within the I494/694 loop, including Mpls and St. Paul and the MSP airport – in the far west metro, thunderstorms will pass by 5pm.

5. 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Large hail, heavy rain, damaging winds over 65 mph, and tornadoes will occur primarily along a line from Forest Lake to Inver Grove Heights and east to the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, including Woodbury, Cottage Grove, Hastings, Afton, White Bear Lake, Hugo, Forest Lake, Taylors Falls and Amery, New Richmond, Hudson, River Falls, Prescott, and Ellsworth, Wisconsin. – Thunderstorms should pass by 6:30 p.m. within Loop 494/694.

18. 7 p.m.: Thunderstorms are moving east-northeast and out of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, bringing heavy hail, heavy rain, damaging winds in excess of 65 mph, and tornadoes east of the Twin Cities in the Red Wing, Lake City, Wabasha, Minnesota, and Siren, Shell Lake, Roberts, Spring Valley, Menomonie, Elk Mound, Eau Claire, WI areas.

The thunderstorms will quickly form over the western metro area around 4 p.m., then race through the center of the Twin Cities between 5 and 6 p.m., and exit the eastern metro area around 7 p.m. and move toward western Wisconsin.

In the Twin Cities area, the risk of thunderstorms will be over by 8 p.m. Tonight and overnight, the sky will clear up and the humidity will decrease, with temperatures dropping to just under 15 degrees by Friday morning. JONATHAN YUHAS