1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 3:00 AM CST, 8 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 400 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 .DISCUSSION... NEXT ROUND OF PRECIP TO AFFECT MN/WI ALREADY IN PROGRESS ACROSS ERN SD AND NERN NE...AHEAD OF VORT MAX IN CNTRL NE EVIDENT ON W/V IMAGERY. SFC LOW CURRENTLY CENTERED ALONG THE KS/NE BORDER...AND STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDS FROM NEAR KFSD TO KMSP. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...PRECIP SHUD ENTER SWRN PORTIONS OF THE FA DURING THE LATE MRNG. PRECIP CURRENTLY OVER W CNTRL WI SHUD BE COMPLETELY OUT OF THE AREA NEAR SUNRISE. NAM BRINGS SFC LOW TO NEAR KFSD MIDDAY AND INTO W CNTRL MN BY THE EVENING. BOUNDARY WILL MOVE NWRD SLIGHTLY...STRETCHING ACROSS CNTRL MN BY THE END OF THE DAY. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS A GOOD BET ACROSS MOST OF THE FA /WITH 1000-2000 J/KG OF SBCAPE PROGGED AND RIGHT ENTRANCE RGN OF UPR JET OVER THE FA/...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE NRN HALF OF THE FA DURING THE AFTN...COINCIDENT WITH THE MAXIMUM IN H10-H8 THETA-E ADVECTION AND ON THE CYCLONIC SHEAR SIDE OF DEVELOPING LLJ. MAXIMUM 0-6 KM BULK SHEAR...IN EXCESS OF 40 KTS ON THE NAM...SHUD ALSO BE IN THIS RGN. NEVERTHELESS...IT APPEARS THAT...ALTHOUGH IT CANNOT BE RULED OUT COMPLETELY...THE SEVERE THREAT FROM ANY OF THESE STORMS SHUD BE LIMITED. LAPSE RATES IN THE HAIL PRODUCTION LAYER /-10 TO -30 C/ ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR LARGE HAIL GROWTH...AS THEY ARE GENERALLY LESS THAN 6 C/KM...AND H8 LIS ARE PROGGED TO BE POSITIVE IN MOST AREAS. WITH DCAPE VALUES AT OR ABOVE 500 J/KG ACROSS ERN AND N CNTRL PORTIONS OF THE FA...DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE A MORE LIKELY THREAT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. IN ADDITION...THE PRESENCE OF THE BOUNDARY...LITTLE CIN...AND RELATIVELY HIGH 0-1 KM BULK SHEAR VALUES /10-20 KTS/ MAKE THE PROBABILITY OF A TORNADO OR TWO OCCURRING GREATER THAN ZERO...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF THE CITIES...NEAR LITTLE FALLS...ST CLOUD...AND CAMBRIDGE. RIDGING BUILDS INTO THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF DEPARTING SYSTEM... BRINGING A TEMPORARY BREAK IN THE WET WEATHER SUNDAY. NEGATIVELY TILTED TROF SWINGS INTO THE PLAINS FROM THE WRN CONUS SUN NGT AND INTO MON...BRINGING YET ANOTHER ROUND OF TSRA. WITH CLOUD COVER...AND PRECIP AFFECTING THE FA THRU MOST OF THE NEAR TERM...AFTN TEMPS SHUD BE A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL...WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF SUN /DUE TO EXPECTATION OF DRY WEATHER/. GENERALLY WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE VALUES ON MIN TEMPS...WITH EXPECTATION THAT DEW POINTS WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH DUE TO PRECIP. LONGER TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ON TUE CUTOFF IN VICINITY...BUT GFS...DGEX AND CANADIAN MODELS DISAGREE ON EXACTLY WHERE IT WILL BE SITTING AT THE TIME AND HOW FAST IT WILL BE MOVING OUT. ETA PUSHES SYSTEM E OF AREA TUE AFT... GFS LATE TUE NIGHT...AND CANADIAN LATE WED. TO SHOW GFS/CANADIAN TREND HAVE EXTENDED POPS INTO TUE AFT. IF DGEX STARTS TO SLOW DOWN AS WELL POPS MIGHT HAVE TO BE EXTENDED FURTHER IN TIME ON FUTURE SHIFTS. TAKING OPTIMISTIC VIEW...DRY AND MAINLY SUNNY FCST WED THRU SAT WITH UPPER LVL RIDGE BUILDING IN FROM W. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MN...NONE. .WI...NONE. && KAT/MARGRAF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 524 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 MNZ043>045-049>053-057>063-065>070-075>078-083>085-092-093- WIZ014>016-023>028-121024- ANOKA-BARRON-BENTON-BLUE EARTH-CARVER-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DAKOTA-DUNN- EAU CLAIRE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-HENNEPIN-ISANTI-KANABEC- KANDIYOHI-LE SUEUR-MCLEOD-MEEKER-MILLE LACS-MORRISON-NICOLLET-PEPIN- PIERCE-POLK-RAMSEY-RENVILLE-RICE-RUSK-SCOTT-SHERBURNE-SIBLEY- ST CROIX-STEARNS-STEELE-WASECA-WASHINGTON-WRIGHT- 524 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LITTLE FALLS...TO WILLMAR AND MANKATO...AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NEBRASKA THIS MORNING...MOVES NORTHEASTWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY. AS THE LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES...A STATIONARY BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WILL MOVE NORTHWARD TO ALEXANDRIA AND ST CLOUD THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT...ALTHOUGH A FEW LARGE HAIL REPORTS AND LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP VERY NEAR THE BOUNDARY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT... AFTER A BRIEF RESPITE ON SUNDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE WEATHER DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MNZ041-042-047-048-054>056-064-073-074-082-091-121024- BROWN-CHIPPEWA-DOUGLAS-LAC QUI PARLE-MARTIN-POPE-REDWOOD-STEVENS- SWIFT-TODD-WATONWAN-YELLOW MEDICINE- 524 AM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT... AFTER A BRIEF RESPITE ON SUNDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE WEATHER DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. KAT
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:47 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A large barn was destroyed on a farm near the intersection of Highway 1 and 85th Avenue in Leon Township, Section 16. A building next to the barn was damaged by flying debris. The time was estimated.
A citizen videotaped a tornado that touched down just south of the Pine County line near the intersection of River Road and 540th Street in a heavily wooded area. The tornado downed some trees and pushed other trees over at an angle in this location before crossing the border into Pine County.
A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud just north of Sedan.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2005Warnings in Minnesota, June 2005
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: 5462043, 5462105, 5462106.