Tornado, Pine
- When
- June 11, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Pine County, 6 mi E of Askov
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.183, -92.650
The tornado touch down briefly in an open, rural area.
Tornado in Minnesota, June 11, 2005
1 tornado, 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
- 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 245 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 .DISCUSSION...SEVERE WEATHER IS MAIN FOCUS FOR TONIGHT LATEST RUC40 INDICATES A GOOD POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE LATEST RUC FORECASTS LI OF -7...WITH H85 THETA-E OVER 340K. THE 0-1KM VGP ALSO INDICATES DECENT POTENTIAL FOR ROTATING SUPERCELLS. THE RESULT SHOULD BE SOME LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STORMS THIS EVENING SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE BORDER BY 12Z SUNDAY...LEAVING JUST A SMALL CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM FOR SUNDAY. OVERALL...IT LOOKS PRETTY DRY...BUT WITH MUGGY AIR AND BOUNDARIES STILL PRESENT - WOULD NOT RULE OUT THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED STORM. THE NEXT SYSTEM TAKES AIM ON THE NORTHLAND SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...AND CLOSES OFF INTO MIDWEEK. HAVE WENT WITH MID RANGE POPS...BUT MAY NEED TO BUMP INTO THE LIKELY CATEGORY WITH LATER FORECASTS. OTHER THAN THAT...IT LOOKS PRETTY DRY AFTER THE CLOSED LOW MOVES OUT ON WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL DRY THINGS OUT FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. .AVIATION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PREVAIL THIS EVENING WITH MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. IFR CIGS AND VSBYS WITH BR EXPECTED AROUND 06Z. .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. DAP/GSF
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 7:45 AM CST, 8 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPOS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 845 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-121230- ASHLAND-BAYFIELD-BURNETT-C. ST. LOUIS-CROW WING-DOUGLAS-IRON- KOOCHICHING-N. AITKIN-N. CASS-N. ITASCA-N. LAKE/N. COOK-N. ST. LOUIS- PINE-PRICE-S. AITKIN-S. CASS-S. COOK/LAKESHORE-S. ITASCA- S. LAKE/LAKESHORE-S. ST. LOUIS/CARLTON-SAWYER-WASHBURN- 845 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME LIKELY BY THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A BRAINERD...TO DULUTH...TO SILVER BAY LINE TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AFTER 200 PM IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DLH STEWART/DAP
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:58 PM CST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
458 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0400 PM TSTM WND DMG 15 S HAYWARD 45.79N 91.48W
06/11/2005 SAWYER WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 27 SOUTH
0435 PM TORNADO 8 E PINE CITY 45.83N 92.80W
06/11/2005 PINE MN PUBLIC
REPORTEDLY TOUCHED DOWN IN A FIELD 8 MILES EAST OF PINE
CITY ALONG HIGHWAY 70
&&
DAPThe radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:20 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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 Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 11, 2005
- Flooding in Kansas, June 11 to 14, 2005
- Tropical Storm in Mississippi, June 11 to 12, 2005
- Strong Wind in Alabama, June 11 to 12, 2005
- Storm Surge in Florida, June 11, 2005
- Flood in Kansas, June 11, 2005
- Rip Current in Georgia, June 11, 2005
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 11, 2005
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 11, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, June 11 to 12, 2005
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2005Warnings in Minnesota, June 2005
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: 5460297.