Tornadoes · United States · Minnesota · 2026

EF0 tornado, Laporte, Minnesota, June 19, 2026

This EF0 tornado ran 2.8 miles across Hubbard County on June 19, 2026, touching down at 2:46 PM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.

Preliminary. This is NWS FGF's damage survey, filed in the Damage Assessment Toolkit as Laporte EF0. The rating, the path and the casualties are the survey's and can change while it is revised. The Storm Prediction Center compiles the official record of 2026 from these surveys and publishes it in the spring of 2027; this page moves to that tornado's permanent address when it does.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. EF2111 to 135 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. EF3136 to 165 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. EF5over 200 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The survey

Rating, as surveyed
EF0, preliminary
Date
June 19, 2026
Touchdown
2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Lifted
2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
On the ground
7 minutes
Path length
2.8 miles (4.5 km)
Path width
50 yards (46 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
County
Hubbard County
Touchdown point
47.210, -94.825
Lift-off point
47.204, -94.767
Highest wind the damage implies
65 mph
Surveyed by
NWS FGF
The office's name for it
Laporte EF0
Survey last edited
July 1, 2026
Record number
None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

What the survey found

Per video and pictures along with real time reports a weak tornado tracked ESE to the south of HWY 200 for about 7 minutes with intermittent kicking up of dust, leaves, and other small debris. No damage could be seen either in pictures or via high resolution satellite so the track is an estimate based on video evidence of time and location.

Written by NWS FGF in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

What the Weather Service recorded

A low top supercell developed in Hubbard county and produced an EF-0 tornado near Laporte, MN during the afternoon.

Per video and pictures along with real time reports a weak tornado tracked ESE to the south of HWY 200 for about 7 minutes with intermittent kicking up of dust, leaves, and other small debris. No damage could be seen either in pictures or via high resolution satellite so the track is an estimate based on video evidence of time and location. Max estimated winds 65 mph.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
19:51 UTC20:03 UTCTornado WarningFGF

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 16:04 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

International Fa, MN (KINL), 12:00Z

7.8 hours before the tornado, 188 km from the path. June 19, 2026.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2026-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 0 joules per kilogram, CIN -99849, lifted condensation level 1401 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2026-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 27 knots.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99849 J/kg
Surface CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
4.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

International Fa, MN (KINL), 00:00Z

4.2 hours after it, 188 km from the path. June 20, 2026.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2026-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 3 joules per kilogram, CIN -1, lifted condensation level 612 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2026-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 11 knots.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Surface CAPE
427 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
6.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Walker (Y49), 13 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)Temp (°F)Dew point (°F)WindGust (kt)Pressure (mb)Weather
17:35 UTC57.456.5220° 6 kt1011.9-VCTSRA
17:55 UTC58.357.6210° 6 kt1011.5-RA
18:15 UTC59.455220° 6 kt1011.2
18:35 UTC62.455.2220° 8 kt1011.2
18:55 UTC62.853.8200° 8 kt1011.2
19:15 UTC61.753.6220° 8 kt1011.2VCTS
19:35 UTC59.7580° 0 kt1010.8VCTSRA
19:55 UTC6057.6270° 3 kt1010.8-RA
20:15 UTC59.457.6240° 4 kt1011.2
20:35 UTC6258.3270° 6 kt1010.8VCTS
20:55 UTC62.454.7270° 11 kt171010.8TS
21:15 UTC61.754280° 5 kt1010.8

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 194 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:48 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)ReportWhereCountyRemark
19:47 UTCTORNADO3 W LaporteHubbard, MNStorm chaser reports tornado 1-2 miles ESE from location on MN 200 between Lake George and Laporte.
19:53 UTCTORNADO1 Ssw LaporteHubbard, MNDelayed report: end point of Laporte Ef0.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in MinnesotaEvery tornado in Minnesota since 1950Warnings in force in Minnesota nowThe forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 19, 2026

4 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 192:26 PM CDTUnratedHubbard, MN0.30
June 195:51 PM CDTEF0Saint Bernard Parish, LA0.775
June 196:48 PM CDTEF0Trempealeau, WI0.930
June 197:45 PM CDTUnratedJackson, WI0.230

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

Sources

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.