EF1 tornado in Faribault County, Minnesota

This tornado track and timing are based on videos from two different storm chasers as well as damage reported by personnel with the Elmore Fire Department. The tornado mostly moved over open fields, but toward the end, it hit a farm, taking tin off a shed and blowing in garage doors. Trees were also broken. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 90 mph.

A southward moving cold front tracked across central and southern MN early Monday morning before stalling near Redwood Falls, MN over to Eau Claire, WI. Morning stratus associated with this frontal boundary aided an increased thermal gradient along this boundary. Later in the afternoon, a surface low centered over eastern Nebraska advected unstable air into much of southern MN. This airmass converged on the pre-existing stationary boundary which led to the initiation of several severe thunderstorms. Many thunderstorms produced large to very large hail measuring as large as 3.5 in diameter as well as four tornadoes across southern Minnesota.