Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2025
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2025, 4:32 PM CDT for Rice County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2025, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Rice County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
825
WFUS53 KMPX 252132
TORMPX
MNC131-252200-
/O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0048.250625T2132Z-250625T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
432 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Southern Rice County in south central Minnesota...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 432 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a
tornado was located over Warsaw, or 7 miles southwest of
Faribault, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught
without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or
destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows and vehicles will
occur. Tree damage is likely.
* Locations impacted include...
Faribault, Morristown, Warsaw, Nerstrand, Ruskin and Nerstrand Big
Woods State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a well-built
building away from windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home,
or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4420 9343 4427 9345 4438 9306 4426 9304
4420 9304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 254DEG 21KT 4423 9339
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
$$
Dye3 follow-up statements
038
WWUS53 KMPX 252140
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
440 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
MNC131-252200-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-250625T2200Z/
Rice MN-
440 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
RICE COUNTY...
At 440 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Faribault, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
Locations impacted include...
Faribault, Nerstrand, Ruskin and Nerstrand Big Woods State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a well-built
building away from windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home,
or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4420 9337 4429 9337 4438 9306 4426 9304
4420 9304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 254DEG 21KT 4423 9339
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
$$
Dye400
WWUS53 KMPX 252153
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
453 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
MNC131-252200-
/O.CON.KMPX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-250625T2200Z/
Rice MN-
453 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
RICE COUNTY...
At 453 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Faribault, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
Locations impacted include...
Faribault, Nerstrand, Ruskin and Nerstrand Big Woods State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a well-built
building away from windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home,
or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 4420 9324 4431 9329 4438 9306 4426 9304
4420 9304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 254DEG 21KT 4424 9332
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
$$
Dye903
WWUS53 KMPX 252158
SVSMPX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
458 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
MNC131-252208-
/O.EXP.KMPX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-250625T2200Z/
Rice MN-
458 PM CDT Wed Jun 25 2025
...TORNADO WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN RICE
COUNTY...
The Tornado Warning that was previously in effect has been reissued
for Rice County and is in effect until 530 PM CDT. Please refer to
that bulletin for the latest severe weather information.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT Wednesday for a
portion of south central Minnesota.
&&
LAT...LON 4420 9324 4431 9329 4438 9306 4426 9304
4420 9304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 254DEG 21KT 4426 9322
$$
DyeThe 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, 3:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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 | 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 | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 12 min |
| Jun 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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 |
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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.