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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
847 PM CDT Fri Jun 5 2020

...Summary of June 2 Storms in South Central Minnesota...

The National Weather Service has been following up on the storms
in south central Minnesota on Tuesday afternoon and evening, June
2. There was definitely some very large hail, and some areas had
wind damage from very strong downdrafts. All of the wind damage 
reports from the areas around New Richland, Waldorf, Hollandale,
Myrtle, Albert Lea, Lewisville, and other areas of south central
Minnesota were due to strong thunderstorm outflow winds.

We also looked into the reports of tornadoes. The storms were 
highly visible from miles away and dozens of people took pictures 
and video. So far, we have not seen any photos or videos that 
indicated there were tornadoes. There were some pictures and 
videos showing what some refer to as gustnadoes, which are not 
tornadoes whatsoever, but instead are short-lived relatively weak
circulations associated with outflow, such as with a shelf cloud 
or rear flank downdraft. Unlike tornadoes, they do not have any 
concentrated circulation at the overhead updraft cloud base, and 
one usually sees dust eventually spreading out. Many professional 
and decades-long highly experienced storm chasers were also 
watching the storms from many different angles, and to our 
knowledge, they have all said these were not tornadoes.

If anyone has video that shows the entire view of the storms, 
including cloud base, and believes they have video of a tornado, 
please let us know, as we always want to document these properly. 
We may be contacted through our email nws.twincities@noaa.gov or 
through our social media accounts on Facebook or Twitter 
@nwstwincities. Thank you. 

Todd Krause
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
NWS Chanhassen MN

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