EFU Tornado — Yellow Medicine, Minnesota

2025-06-28 · near Burr, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yds

Path width

Event narrative

A tornado in far northwestern Yellow Medicine County was caught on video from three different storm chasers in three different locations. A law enforcement officer also took video of the tornado. This allowed triangulation of the approximate tornado track. It appears to have moved across a field and dissipated. Satellite imagery did not indicate any track and the tornado did not hit any damage indicators.

Wider weather episode

Scattered storms developed near the South Dakota and Minnesota border during the early evening on June 28th, then quickly strengthened into discrete supercells as they progressed into west central Minnesota. These storms produced scattered reports of large hail, thunderstorm wind damage, and three tornadoes.

As the evening progressed, the supercells merged into clusters and eventually into long line that produced more widespread wind damage and five tornadoes in Carver County. The storms gradually weakened after moving into Wisconsin and south central Minnesota.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1264860. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.