Hail, Todd
- When
- August 12, 2:18 PM CST
- Where
- Todd County, Grey Eagle
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.820, -94.770
Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, August 12, 1999
3 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:19 UTC.
Event by event
3 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Le Sueur
- When
- August 12, 8:13 PM CST to 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Le Sueur County, Heidelberg to 5 mi E of Heidelberg
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -93.520
A few trees felled. Tornado continued into Rice County.
Tornado, Rice
- When
- August 12, 8:15 PM CST to 8:17 PM CST
- Where
- Rice County, Lonsdale to 4 mi W of Lonsdale
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.470, -93.520
A few trees down. Continuation of the Le Sueur County tornado.
Tornado, Dakota
- When
- August 12, 8:33 PM CST
- Where
- Dakota County, 4 mi W of Castle Rock
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.550, -93.230
No damage incurred, touchdown in open field.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 12, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1999
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Tennessee, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 12, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, August 12, 1999
- Tornado in Illinois, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 12, 1999
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 12, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 12, 1999
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1999Warnings in Minnesota, August 1999
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: 5719005, 5719006, 5719104, 5719105.