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Tornado Watch 451

June 22, 202520 counties in Minnesota; 10 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 22, 2025, 2:58 PM CDT for 20 counties in Minnesota; 10 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2025, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 30 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	51 min
Jun 22, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall	54 min
Jun 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall	46 min
Jun 22, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FGF	Lake of the Woods	26 min
Jun 22, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	49 min
Jun 22, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Koochiching	23 min
Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Koochiching	50 min
Jun 22, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Koochiching	56 min
Jun 22, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Koochiching	32 min

Discussions around it

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 21 more	96 min
Jun 22, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 8 more	3 hr
Jun 22, 11:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	65 min
Jun 22, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more	116 min
Jun 22, 5:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beltrami, Clearwater, Koochiching, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more	113 min
Jun 22, 2:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Grant and 11 more	2 hr
Jun 22, 9:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Emmons, Grant, Kidder, Logan, Sioux, Stutsman	88 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2025 Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2025 Every tornado watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.