A tornado watch remains in effect for Minneapolis, St. Paul and parts of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin until 9 p.m. CDT Wednesday after storms inside the watch area prompted two tornado warnings.

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities issued the first warning at 4:53 p.m. CDT for parts of Dakota and Goodhue counties in Minnesota and Pierce County in Wisconsin after radar showed rotation in a storm near Stanton, northeast of Northfield. The NWS tracked the storm east past Cannon Falls toward Welch and Red Wing, and at one point said it could produce baseball-size hail.

At 5:11 p.m., the NWS office in Duluth issued a second tornado warning for southern Pine County in Minnesota and Burnett County in Wisconsin. That storm moved northeast at 50 mph through Grantsburg and Webster.

Both warnings have since expired. The Storm Prediction Center’s preliminary storm reports include one tornado report, at 5:40 p.m. CDT about 3 miles southeast of Danbury in Burnett County, Wisconsin.…