19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 27, 2:15 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 315 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 .DISCUSSION... NICE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY FIRING MAINLY JUST N OF CWA ALONG SURFACE COLD FRONT WITH VORT AROUND AXN GIVING IT AN ASSIST. MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON CLOUDS AND SCATTERED PRECIPITATION HAVE SUPPRESSED CONVECTION IN MUCH OF S MN. HOWEVER STORMS DEVELOPING IN UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN IA IN BAND OF STRONGER LOW LEVEL WINDS SHOULD LIFT INTO S MN. ALSO SEEING A BAND OF ELEVATED CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TC METRO AHEAD OF MID LEVEL TROF. MAY STILL SEE SOME DEVELOPMENT FARTHER WEST IN SW MN NEAR COLD FRONT NEXT COUPLE HOURS ONCE SUBSIDENCE IN WAKE OF VORT WEAKENS. VERY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NAM AND GFS NEXT COUPLE DAYS IN HANDING OF PRECIPITATION EVENTS. BOTH HAVE TRENDED TOWARD INCREASED PRECIP CHANCES FOR S MN INTO WI ON TUESDAY. GFS HOWEVER APPREARS TOO WET WITH TOO STRONG OF A SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS AREA. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES FOR WED/THURSDAY AS WELL WITH NAM 6 TO 12 HOURS FASTER. GFS BRINGS ACROSS A STRONGER AND SLOWER UPPER TROF ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER OF STATES. WENT MORE WITH THE GFS TIMING NOT BRINGING PRECP INTO EASTERN AREAS TIL AFTN. && LONGER TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY RUNNING WITH THE DGEX DUE TO ETA/NAMS PLACEMENT OF CUT OFF LOW JUST OFF SOUTHERN CA COAST AND SUBTROPICAL RIDGE EXTENDING INTO GREAT LAKES REGION. MUCH OF EXTENDED LOOKED GOOD EXCEPT FOR DRY SAT PERIOD. WITH POTENT SURFACE LOW PRESSURE ACROSS CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY...AND PROTRUDING WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER MUCH OF CWA...DECIDED BETTER PART OF VALOR WAS TO INCLUDE CHANCE T-STORMS THIS REGION FOR MAJORITY OF SAT. GOOD CHUNK OF FA IN RIGHT REAR QUAD OF 80KT JET MAX SAT/12Z-18Z. ISENTROPIC OMEGA IN THE 40 TO 50 RANGE...COUPLED WITH 10 TO 30 MB COND PRESSURE DEFICTS AT THE 310K LEVEL SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED. DGEX THEN SPLITS SURFACE FEATURE OVR DAKOTAS INTO TWO SYSTEMS...ONE OVR NORTHERN MN AND THE OTHER OVR KANSAS BY 00Z MON. COLD FRONT PASSES MUCH OF AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY DURING DAY ON MONDAY...WITH ANOTHER SUMMER 50H RIDGE BUILDING IN ITS WAKE BY TUES MORNING. RIDGE WILL BUILD DRAMATICALLY INTO MID WEEK EFFECTIVELY SHUTTING DOWN PCPN CHANCES ACROSS FA TUE-THU. .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MN...NONE. .WI...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 532 AM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-281100- ANOKA-BARRON-BENTON-BLUE EARTH-BROWN-CARVER-CHIPPEWA-CHISAGO-DAKOTA- DOUGLAS-DUNN-EAU CLAIRE-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-GOODHUE-HENNEPIN-ISANTI- KANABEC-KANDIYOHI-LAC QUI PARLE-LE SUEUR-MARTIN-MCLEOD-MEEKER- MILLE LACS-MORRISON-NICOLLET-PEPIN-PIERCE-POLK-POPE-RAMSEY-REDWOOD- RENVILLE-RICE-RUSK-SCOTT-SHERBURNE-SIBLEY-ST CROIX-STEARNS-STEELE- STEVENS-SWIFT-TODD-WASECA-WASHINGTON-WATONWAN-WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE- 532 AM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXIST TODAY INTO THIS EVENING...AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES INTO WESTERN MINNESOTA BY AFTERNOON. AREAS UNDER THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...WOULD GENERALLY BE EAST OF A LINE FROM ABOUT LITTLE FALLS TO REDWOOD FALLS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. HOWEVER...A TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM IS STILL EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS BEGINNING LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ENTER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT...AND THEN CONTINUE ACROSS THE REST OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND POSSIBLY WESTERN WISCONSIN ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JPR
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:08 UTC.
19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail began to fall at the size of walnuts and gradually decreased to the size of dimes 25 minutes later.
Hail up to the size of quarters fell on Highway 24. A car was dented by the hail.
Quarter sized hail cracked windshields.
Quarter sized hail fell at North Memorial Hospital.
Trees up to 18 inches in diameter were downed.
Penny sized hail fell near Highview School.
A funnel cloud was spotted by a storm chaser looking southwest from a position along County Road 11 in Redwood County about 4.5 miles south southwest of Franklin.
A tree was downed across County Road 7 about one mile north of County Road 5 just north of Spencer Brook.
Penny sized hail fell in Otsego Township.
Four large trees were downed. One tree fell onto a home. Another tree blocked a road.
A "rope-shaped" funnel cloud was observed and photographed for 2 minutes by a trained spotter about 10 miles east of Janesville.
Trees were downed in Coon Rapids, Fridley, and Columbia Heights.
Tree limbs, power lines, and a transformer were downed.
Penny sized hail fell near Waldorf and Alma City.
A tree was downed onto power and telephone lines near the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Fourth Street.
Two foot diameter trees were downed on the St. Olaf College campus. Trees were also downed near the intersection of Lincoln Parkway and Second Street, and on Decker Avenue. A tree was downed onto a house on North Linden Street. A tree felled onto a power line started a fire at Ivanhoe Avenue. A utility pole was broken on Cedar Avenue.
A tree was downed onto a power line on County Road 4 near Wilton Bridge.
Penny sized hail fell at the Fort Snelling ball fields.
Quarter sized hail fell just south of the Waseca Federal Correction Institution. Dime to nickel size hail fell in town.
Penny sized hail fell near Burnsville Center Mall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5462730, 5462783, 5462784, 5462785, 5462786, 5462787, 5462873, 5462788, 5462789, 5462790, 5462791, 5462792, 5462872, 5462793, 5462794, 5462795, 5462796, 5462797, 5462798, 5462799, 5462800, 5462801, 5462802, 5462803, 5462804, 5462870, 5462868, 5462869, 5462871.