EF0 tornado in Freeborn County, Minnesota

Tornado June 25, 2025 · Freeborn County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Faribault County → Freeborn County → Freeborn County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado was caught on video in Faribault County, just north of Interstate 90. It moved across fields before moving into Freeborn County, where it hit some trees. Satellite imagery confirmed the tornado path. Based on the tree damage, the maximum wind speed was estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

A warm front lifted north into southern Minnesota on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th. Strong surface heating to the south of the front with dew points in the 70s allowed for ample instability to develop across the area. Scattered thunderstorms developed in response to the instability and flash flooding occurred in western and east central MN. Strong low-level shear allowed these low-topped supercells to rotate and produce four EF-0s and one EF-1 tornadoes across Faribault and Freeborn Counties in southern Minnesota.

Most tornadoes were on the ground between one to three miles and approximately 25 yds wide. The longest tornado path was an EF-1 that occurred west-southwest of Hartland in Freeborn County for about 5.2 miles with peak winds at 105 mph. The tornado damaged crops, power poles, and several farm outbuildings.

Began near Alden (43.6823, -93.6484).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1264812. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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