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Tornado Watch 461
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 2025, 2:59 PM CDT for 10 counties in Iowa; 17 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2025, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2025, 9:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 36 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Blue Earth County, MN, Dodge County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Rice County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Winona County, MN, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Jackson County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Richland County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 14 min |
| Jun 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 22 min |
| Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Winnebago, Worth | 20 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, 4:32 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 | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 19 min |
| Jun 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 20 min |
| Jun 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 21 min |
| Jun 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Houston | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | La Crosse, Monroe | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 27 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth | 115 min |
| Jun 25, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 119 min |
| Jun 25, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Worth | 90 min |
| Jun 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Crawford, Franklin, Hamilton and 10 more | 96 min |
| Jun 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston, Winona | 97 min |
| Jun 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Richland, Rock and 3 more | 84 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.