Flash Flood — Yellow Medicine, Minnesota

2025-06-28 to 2025-06-29 · near Burr, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota

Event narrative

Many county and township roadways were washed out and damaged from the round of storms on June 28th. The Emergency Manager reported that areas of Yellow Medicine County that have not historically flooded, happened in the June 28th flooding event.

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 1277922. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.