Thunderstorms produced a tornado near Pipestone, and damaging winds at several other locations in southwest Minnesota during the afternoon of June 14th.
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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 episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Thunderstorms produced a tornado near Pipestone, and damaging winds at several other locations in southwest Minnesota during the afternoon of June 14th.
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 11:15 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD
1215 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
.SHORT TERM...(Today and Tonight)
Issued at 332 AM CDT Tue Jun 14 2016
Difficult weather forecast for today and this evening. Currently
watching a weakening MCS over south central SD and central Nebraska
track east-northeastward early this morning. Expect this complex to
pass west to east through the forecast area through late morning.
Meanwhile a boundary has set up from west to east across northeast
Nebraska into northwest Iowa and has triggered a few scattered
thunderstorms which are slowly trudging to the northeast. As the MCS
heads east, it is likely that these scattered storms will be
assimilated.
Surface low is expected to strengthen over north central Nebraska
around daybreak and begin lifting north-northeast, with the upper
level trough following a similar trajectory. Deterministic models
have not initialized well with the ongoing precipitation. The hi-res
models/CAMS however have a much better handle on conditions, and
therefore have focused on the RAP/HRRR/ARW. These models push the
aforementioned front northward through the forecast area late
morning and this afternoon, placing much of the forecast area in the
warm and moist sector of the system. Southwest winds potentially
help mix out cloud cover to our south and west, with a possible
trailing boundary nosing into south central SD in the afternoon. All
CAMS fire up the second round of convection around 1 or 2 pm near
the I-29 corridor and track them east into the early evening.
Cloud debris and rain cooled air could hamper our instability and
lower our severe risk, so confidence is not high on severe threat
for today. We do have decent directional and speed shear and very
weak capping in the I-29 corridor and point eastward, where the best
potential for redevelopment exists. If clearing occurs and
instability is maximized, storms capable of producing hail to ping
pong size and wind gusts to 65 mph are possible in the early
afternoon through early evening. With backing low level wind shear
near the warm front, cannot rule out an isolated tornado as well,
but this threat is low. Precipitable water is right around 1.5
inches, so heavy rainfall will be likely with any thunderstorms.
Cannot rule out some ponding in urban or low lying areas under
heavier storms.
A few lingering showers and storms on the back side of the exiting
low will be possible in the late evening through the early morning
hours. Lows tonight will be in the low to mid 60s.
.LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Monday)
Issued at 332 AM CDT Tue Jun 14 2016
The upper low will pull east soon enough to allow for convection to
be gone before daybreak Wednesday. Quickly following surface ridging
and the start of strong upper ridging will bring dry weather
Wednesday and Thursday, with daytime temperatures warming through
the 80s, and into the lower 90s along the Missouri River. Dew points
and humidity will be fairly tame.
Friday through Monday will bring the strong surface ridging to start
with, then the ridge being very slowly flattened by westerly waves.
It looks warm, and the question is how warm. It currently looks safe
that we will not make it to the heat advisory levels we saw in the
just ended hot stretch. Temperatures should get well into the 80s
and lower 90s, and dew points into the 60s. A slightly drier flow
from the low level ridge to the east may keep our southwest MN and
northwest IA areas a little drier.
The slow flattening of the ridge by repeated short waves will bring
periodic chances of storms, but at this time do not expect any of
them to be widespread. These threats will be hard to time and
probably follow our climatological trend for better chances at night
at this time of the year. The upper ridge should be driven far
enough to the south to allow for some cooling over the northern
plains at the end of the period, by next Tuesday.
&&
.AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Wednesday afternoon)
Issued at 1214 PM CDT Tue Jun 14 2016
Thunderstorms will quickly expand in coverage over northwest Iowa
and northeast Nebraska, with the strongest storms from 18z through
about 1z. While there are some patchy MVFR ceilings, the main
concerns will center around the thunderstorm threat. After the
thunderstorms exit, VFR conditions are expected.
&&
.FSD Watches/Warnings/Advisories...
SD...None.
MN...Flash Flood Watch until 10 PM CDT this evening for MNZ081-089-
090.
IA...Flash Flood Watch until 10 PM CDT this evening for IAZ002-003-
013-014.
NE...None.
&&
SHORT TERM...
LONG TERM...
AVIATION...08HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 423 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097- 098-NEZ013-014-SDZ040-055-056-062-067-070-071-150930- LYON IA-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-SIOUX-O'BRIEN-CLAY IA-PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE- BUENA VISTA-WOODBURY-IDA-LINCOLN MN-LYON MN-MURRAY-COTTONWOOD- NOBLES-JACKSON-PIPESTONE-ROCK-DIXON-DAKOTA-BROOKINGS-LAKE-MOODY- MINNEHAHA-LINCOLN SD-CLAY SD-UNION- 423 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING WILL BECOME SCATTERED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND 60 MPH GUSTS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WARMING COULD BRING DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BACK TO ABOVE MIDSUMMER NORMALS FOR THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME...THE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS HOT AS DURING THE PERIOD RECENTLY ENDED...BUT THE HEAT INDEX COULD STILL REACH THE 90S IN PART OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 3PM TODAY. SDZ038-039-050-052>054-057>061-063>066-068-069-150930- BEADLE-KINGSBURY-GREGORY-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-BRULE-AURORA- DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK-CHARLES MIX-DOUGLAS-HUTCHINSON-TURNER- BON HOMME-YANKTON- 423 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL BECOME SCATTERED BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND END THIS EVENING. ISOLATED STORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO QUARTER SIZE AND 60 MPH GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WARMING COULD BRING DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BACK TO ABOVE MIDSUMMER NORMALS FOR THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME THE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS HOT AS DURING THE PERIOD RECENTLY ENDED... BUT THE HEAT INDEX COULD STILL REACH THE 90S IN PART OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 2 PM TODAY.
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:54 UTC.
11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large limbs blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a 2 foot diameter tree broken off just above the ground.
Thunderstorm winds blew trees down on to power lines.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 3 inch diameter limbs blown down.
Thunderstorm winds lifted up a tin roof.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several small branches blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down. The winds also flattened a corn crop.
Thunderstorm winds cause tree damage in a shelter belt, including up to 3 inch diameter hardwood branches broken off.
Thunderstorm winds damaged several large trees and destroyed an outbuilding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 2016Warnings in Minnesota, June 2016
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: 639496, 639503, 639504, 639505, 639508, 639511, 639515, 639517, 639518, 639528, 639606, 639607.