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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Twin Cities, MN

June 25, 20257 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this areal flood warning at Jun 25, 2025, 3:02 PM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2025, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Anoka County, MN, Carver County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Scott County, MN, Washington County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 25 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Jun 25, 1:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 3:15 AM CDT, 11 hours 47 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
315 AM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025

MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-
260815-
Douglas-Todd-Morrison-Mille Lacs-Kanabec-Stevens-Pope-Stearns-
Benton-Sherburne-Isanti-Chisago-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa-
Kandiyohi-Meeker-Wright-Hennepin-Anoka-Ramsey-Washington-
Yellow Medicine-Renville-McLeod-Sibley-Carver-Scott-Dakota-
Redwood-Brown-Nicollet-Le Sueur-Rice-Goodhue-Watonwan-Blue Earth-
Waseca-Steele-Martin-Faribault-Freeborn-Polk-Barron-Rusk-
St. Croix-Pierce-Dunn-Pepin-Eau Claire-
315 AM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central and
southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

Rain and thunderstorms will overspread the entire forecast area
today and tonight. Areas of heavy rainfall and localized flash
flooding are possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Additional rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected to
continue through Thursday. Heavy rain and flooding are possible,
especially if and where thunderstorms track over areas that
receive heavy rainfall on Wednesday.

Additional storms are possible Saturday night into Sunday, some of
which may be strong.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN spotter activation may be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 10:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1032 AM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1029 AM     Flash Flood      Renville                44.79N 95.21W
06/25/2025                   Renville           MN   Public

            Photos provided via social media of standing
            water in the Renville County West School
            entry way. Also reports of basements being
            flooded in the city of Renville.

&&

RMD

Local storm report, Jun 25, 10:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1044 AM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1036 AM     Flash Flood      Renville                44.79N 95.21W
06/25/2025                   Renville           MN   Public

            Reports of basements flooding from mPING.

&&

RMD

Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:38 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 10:50 AM CDT	Flood Watch	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 24 more	10 hr
Jun 25, 11:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MPX	Renville	6 hr
Jun 25, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	14 min
Jun 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Anoka, Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	3 hr
Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault	22 min
Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Freeborn	18 min
Jun 25, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Freeborn, Steele	18 min
Jun 25, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur	36 min
Jun 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Freeborn, Steele, Waseca	33 min
Jun 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	18 min
Jun 25, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Rice	28 min
Jun 25, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Steele	12 min
Jun 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Goodhue, Rice	18 min
Jun 25, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele, Waseca	38 min
Jun 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	20 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2025 Every areal flood warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.