3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 23, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 320 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 .DISCUSSION...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY BETTER AGREEMENT TODAY BETWEEN THE GFS AND THE NAM-WRF ON THE DEEPENING SHORTWAVE APPROACHING THE CWA IN NORTHWEST FLOW. SAID FEATURE PROGGED OVER THE MN CWA BY SATURDAY MORNING. IN ADVANCE OF THE SHORTWAVE THERE IS CONSIDERABLE LARGE SCALE ASCENT WITH THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF THE JET PROVIDING AMPLE LAYER DIVERGENCE ALOFT. STRONG LOW TO MID LEVEL THETA-E ADVECTION IS INDICATED ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT ALONG WITH INCREASING INSTABILITY. THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING ATTM TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF THE MN CWA AND A FEW SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER WEST CENTRAL MN. WILL MAINTAIN LIKELY POPS SPREADING FROM WEST TO EAST TONIGHT ACROSS THE MN CWA AND INTO WEST CENTRAL WI SATURDAY MORNING. A SURFACE REFLECTION IS SEEN ON BOTH THE GFS AND NAM-WRF MOVING ACROSS THE CWA ON SATURDAY. SEVERE WEATHER CHANCES STILL IN QUESTION FOR TOMORROW WITH EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND RATHER WEAK SHEAR PARAMETERS. A CASE COULD BE MADE FOR SEVERE STORMS OVER SE MN AND SOUTHERN WI AHEAD OF THE SURFACE WAVE. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO AFOREMENTIONED MODELS DIMINISHES ON SUNDAY AS THE GFS IS DEEPER AND FASTER WITH THE SURFACE LOW MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN IL. USED THE SLOWER NAM-WRF SOLUTION GIVEN THE SLOWER RESULTS ON THE LAST TWO WEATHER SYSTEMS THAT MOVED THROUGH OUR REGION. THIS RESULTED IN LOW CHANCE POPS OVER THE REGION ON SUNDAY. DRY WEATHER EXPECTED DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY WITH A COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO JUST BE REACHING FAR NORTHERN MN BY LATE IN THE DAY. MINOR CHANGES MADE TO LOW/HIGH TEMPERATURES DURING THE PERIOD WITH GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GRIDDED TEMPERATURES AND MET/MAV GUIDANCE. .LONGER TERM...MONDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY WILL CONTINUE TO RUN WITH GFS40 DUE TO PLACEMENT OF UPPER LEVEL VORTEX ABOVE JAMES BAY AND DEVELOPING WEAK TROPICAL WAVE OVER WESTERN BAHAMAS. MODEL ALSO VERY ACCURATE IN DEPICTING CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHERN MN AND EASTERN DAKOTAS. LAST TWO RUNS OF GFS DEPICTING 50H CLOSED LOW JUST NORTH OF MINNESOTA BY 27/12Z. COOL FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH SAME WILL MOVE THROUGH MUCH OF FA BY TUE AFTERNOON. INCREASED POPS MONDAY EVENING INTO TUESDAY FROM DRY FORECAST DUE TO THIS FEATURE AND BEST COND PRESSURE DEFICITS...OMEGA AND MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH 305K ISENTROPIC CHART. MOISTURE WILL BE RATHER LIMITED WITH THIS SYSTEM...AS OPPOSED TO SATURDAYS SYSTEM. LOOK FOR PCPN LEVELS ON AVERAGE TO BE BETWEEN A FEW HUNDREDTHS TO NEAR TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH AREA WIDE. A DRY AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURE REGIME WILL INVADE MUCH OF MN AND WI BEGINNING ON WEDNESDAY AS CUT OFF LOW DIVES INTO THE NORTHERN GREAT LAKES REGION...AND UPPER LEVEL VORTEX DESCENDS TO JUST WEST OF JAMES BAY BY FRIDAY MORNING. CURRENT 50H THICKNESS VALUES IN THIS NW FLOW WILL DROP FROM THE CURRENT 561-564 LEVEL DOWN INTO THE 550 TO 554 RANGE BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THOSE WORRIED ABOUT A COOL 4TH OF JULY PERIOD SHOULD NOT BE ASSUAGED...AS MODERATE WAA RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. && .MPX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. && RAH/AZ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 227 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 MNZ041>045-047>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 241915- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT-HENNEPIN-ANOKA-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA- REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH- WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK- ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN-EAU CLAIRE- 227 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM REDWOOD FALLS TO STAPLES. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHING FROM THE DAKOTAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. RAH
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:31 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail occurred in section 5 of Mehurin Township. Soybean crop damage reported in section 17 of Mehurin Township.
Reports of crop damage extended from St. Leo to the Lyon County line.
Several trees felled.
Hail covered the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5515940, 5515941, 5515943, 5515942.