Thunderstorm Wind, Olmsted
- When
- July 3, 3:28 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.920, -92.500
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 3, 1979
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Olmsted
- When
- July 3, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 43.950, -92.400
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, July 3, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, July 3, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 3, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 3, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 3, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 3, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 3, 1979
- Hail in Wyoming, July 3, 1979
- Hail in Colorado, July 3, 1979
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1979
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10052647, 10052648.