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Tornado Watch 419
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 29, 2026, 7:48 PM CDT for 16 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2026, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Lake County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Wadena County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Polk | 71 min |
| Jun 29, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 10:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Saint Louis | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Lake, Saint Louis | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 65 min |
| Jun 30, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Lake, Saint Louis | 61 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Benton, Cass, Clay, Crow Wing, Hubbard and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lyon and 16 more | 91 min |
| Jun 29, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Kanabec and 3 more | 116 min |
| Jun 29, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Watonwan | 93 min |
| Jun 30, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 18 more | 86 min |
| Jun 30, 7:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 96 min |
| Jun 30, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabasha | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
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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.