India, April 29 -- While Minnesota residents brace for a possibly big weather event, it is necessary to understand the primary differences between a tornado watch and a tornado warning. Both of them are issued by the National Weather Service in the US.

The National Weather Service has placed a major section of southeast Minnesota under a Level 4 risk for severe weather trouble. Weather forecasters are sounding alarm that residents could face powerful tornadoes, hailstones, and heavy winds.

A tornado watch is an alert issued by the Storm Prediction Center in the United States, and is carries the primary message to "Stay Prepared". According to the government's National Weather Service site, the first lines of a tornado watch reads, "Torn...