Name: Funnel Cloud in Minnesota, June 26, 2002
Start: 2002-06-26T12:05
End: 2002-06-26T12:05
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 1:55 AM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:55 AM CST, 10 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
255 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL OVER THE SOUTHERN AREA THE
MAIN CONCERN OF THIS FORECAST.

SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ALONG KSTC-KFRM-KSUX LINE AT 07Z WITH
A WEAK GRADIENT AND PUSH OF PACIFIC AIR TO ITS WEST. CONVECTIVE
BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM KMSP-KLSE FOR SEVERAL HOURS EARLIER CAUSING
REGENERATION OF TSRA+ AND 4-6 INCH RAINS OVER BUFFALO AND WABASHA
COUNTIES. THIS HAS NOW SHIFTED SOUTH AS EXPECTED WITH FRONT
AND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPROACHING FROM THE WEST.

VERY WARM 850 MB TEMPERATURES PER 00Z DATA. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY
SHOWING SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS MN TO CONTINUE BIG
PICTURE OF FORECAST PACKAGE. MOST OF THE SOUTHERN FORECAST AREA IS
QUITE WARM YET WITH CAP STILL IN PLACE AND MIDDLE 70S.

FOCUS WAS ON THE FIRST 24 HOURS. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE TO ROUGHLY
A KDBQ-KMKE LINE BY MID-AFTERNOON PER 00Z ETA. THE SOUTHERN FORECAST
AREA WILL SEE TSRA DURING THE MORNING.  THEN...MAYBE A BREAK BUT
CAPES BUILDING NEAR THE FRONT LATER. SBCAPES OF 2500-3000J/KG
COULD BE RIGHT ON GRANT/CLAYTON COUNTY IN EARLY AFTERNOON.  SHEAR
IS AGAIN WEAK FOR SUPERCELLS /20-25KTS 0-6KM BULK SHEAR/ AND DEEP
WARM CLOUD DEPTH OF 9KFT YIELDS HEAVY RAIN AS THE MAIN THREAT. THREAT
WILL SHIFT SOUTH BY LATE AFTERNOON OUT OF FORECAST AREA. 06Z ETA RUN
AGREES WITH THIS AFTER A QUICK LOOK. ALTHOUGH DEWPOINTS WILL FALL...
THIS WILL HAPPEN SLOWLY WED SO MLCAPES OF OVER 1000 J/KG MAY BE FOUND
S OF KRST-KDLL LINE BY AFTERNOON. WITH LACK OF SURFACE
BOUNDARY/CONVERGENCE AND MEAN SUBSIDENCE...NO RAIN MENTION LOOKS
FINE.

ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THEN UNDER RIDGE BUILDING. HAVE BUMPED THE
HIGHS SLIGHTLY THE WED/THU BASED ON SLOWER PROGRESSION TO RIDGE WED
AND LACK OF COOLER AIR IN OBSERVED DATA.

.LSE...NONE.

BAUMGARDT

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:07 UTC.

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Event by event

1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Funnel Cloud, Fillmore

When: June 26, 12:05 PM CST
Where: Fillmore County, 2 mi W of Mabel
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.674, -92.090 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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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: 5305717.