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Tornado Watch 463
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 26, 2025, 12:55 PM CDT for 6 counties in Iowa; 9 counties in Minnesota; 10 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2025, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Howard County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Richland County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 16 min |
| Jun 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Juneau, Monroe, Vernon | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Howard, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Winona | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, Vernon | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Juneau, Vernon | 14 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Floyd, Franklin and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 32 more | 114 min |
| Jun 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Clarke and 14 more | 89 min |
| Jun 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 22 more | 89 min |
| Jun 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Winona | 92 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.