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Tornado Watch 423

June 16, 202545 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 16, 2025, 2:52 PM CDT for 45 counties in Minnesota; 6 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2025, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2025, 9:21 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 51 counties

Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Rice County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Steele County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Burnett County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Washburn County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wadena	38 min
Jun 16, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena	25 min
Jun 16, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena	37 min
Jun 16, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Todd	33 min
Jun 16, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Wadena	35 min
Jun 16, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	62 min
Jun 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	30 min
Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Todd	24 min
Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing	24 min
Jun 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	50 min
Jun 16, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns	36 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing	61 min
Jun 16, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	38 min
Jun 16, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Cass, Itasca	42 min
Jun 16, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod, Meeker, Wright	40 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Crow Wing	23 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	48 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	33 min
Jun 16, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Meeker, Wright	28 min
Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Pine	49 min
Jun 16, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	40 min
Jun 16, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison	49 min
Jun 16, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod, Wright	48 min
Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright	13 min
Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod	43 min
Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Brown, Nicollet, Sibley	55 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	52 min
Jun 16, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Pine	64 min
Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Nicollet	48 min
Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis	37 min
Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Carver, McLeod	32 min
Jun 16, 6:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	6 hr
Jun 16, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs	50 min
Jun 16, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, Scott	38 min
Jun 16, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Pine	67 min
Jun 16, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Nicollet	22 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Carver	17 min
Jun 16, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	18 min
Jun 16, 7:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	5 hr
Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Scott	50 min
Jun 16, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Rice, Waseca	40 min
Jun 16, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn	53 min
Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	27 min
Jun 16, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	12 min
Jun 16, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Sawyer, Washburn	23 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 1:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas and 11 more	2 hr
Jun 16, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hennepin and 7 more	86 min
Jun 16, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, McLeod, Martin, Nicollet and 2 more	53 min
Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Ramsey, Rice and 3 more	63 min

Nearby

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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.