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Tornado in Nobles County, Minnesota

Tornado April 28, 2025 · Nobles County, Minnesota

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Not rated

1.5 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief landspout tornado was witnessed in an open field. From video evidence, the tornado touched down around 3 miles west-southwest of Brewster, just east of Sundberg Avenue north of 220th Street, and tracked to the east-northeast for around 2 minutes before dissipating. The tornado caused no damage and was therefore unrated.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms erupted along a cold front and a post-frontal boundary during the afternoon and early evening of April 28. Steep mid-level lapse rates around 8C/km and 55 to 65 knots of deep-layer shear led to severe storm structures, which evolved toward smaller-scale linear features along strong outflow pools with 60 to 65 mph winds during the event. Post-frontal storms developed in an environment of up to 1000 J/kg MUCAPE which favored mainly large hail.

Began near (otg)worthington Arp (43.6792, -95.5310).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256838. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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