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Upper Mississippi Valley severe storms

Upper Mississippi Valley Severe Storms Damage Map, Oct 28, 2026

Upper Mississippi Valley severe storms has 18 local storm reports in the storm area. Tornado, hail, wind gust, and damage are shown. Social posts are hand-picked.

2026 · Oct 28, 2026. Local storm reports in the storm area.

How to read this. Each dot is a local storm report: a tornado, hail, a wind gust, or wind damage. Open a dot for the place, the time in Eastern Time, and what was reported. The map opens on the reports. The boxes show or hide each kind on the map and in the list. A hollow pin is a hand-picked post from that town. When several posts are from the same town, the pin lists every one of them. It is not a full list of social media.

The technical details

Local storm reports come from the National Weather Service LSR feed as republished by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/lsr.geojson. The request uses the event dates, from 6 hours before the start through 36 hours after the end, and the states that meet the event area. A report is kept when it is a tornado, hail, a wind gust, or wind damage, and it falls inside that area. Rain reports stay out. Times are Eastern Time (ET). The file is cached with the other collected feeds. If the feed is down, the previous file stays. An empty cache shows no dots. A curated post list is optional. A missing file shows no pins.

Social pins are an approved list stored with the site. The coordinates are the town, not a person. The site stores the post address and id, and does not download the photo or video. X uses the official embed from platform.twitter.com, and that script loads only on this page when an X post is approved. Instagram and Facebook are a link card until META_OEMBED_TOKEN is set, which asks Meta for the official embed. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The methodology page is the full reference for the forecast scores. How we grade says the same rules in plain English. This map is not a score.

Damage map

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  • Tornado · 1
  • Hail · 12
  • Wind gust · 1
  • Damage · 4
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Local storm reports

18 reports from when the storm was nearby.

The kind of local storm report: wind gust, damage, flood, surge, or tornado. How strong the report was, in the units the National Weather Service used. Blank when the report did not include a number. Eastern TimeWhen the report was valid, shown in Eastern Time. The town, or the distance from a town, in the local storm report. RemarksThe note that came with the local storm report.
Damage — 7:48 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 1 NE Cable, WI Dispatch reports multiple trees down in the immediate Cable area. Time estimated based on radar and the call center reports.
Tornado — 6:40 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 3 SE Danbury, WI Weak, brief rotation on the ground, kicking up small branches, leaves, and water as the rotation passed over Love Lake. No damage as of now.
Damage — 6:17 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 3 W Miesville, MN Various size tree limbs down amidst other small debris.
Hail 1.25 Inch 6:10 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 3 NW Miesville, MN —
Hail 1.75 Inch 6:10 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 3 W Miesville, MN —
Hail 1.5 Inch 6:08 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 New Trier, MN Time estimated via radar, photo sent on X.
Hail 1.5 Inch 6:06 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 New Trier, MN Photo measurement of ping pong ball size via social media. Time estimated via radar.
Damage — 6:00 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 1 S Hampton, MN Photo provided via social media of roof damage to a farm outbuilding near at the intersection of MN-50 and MN-56. Time estimated via radar.
Damage — 6:00 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 2 S Hampton, MN Pine tree and limbs snapped at Hillcrest Cemetery. Time estimated via radar.
Hail 0.75 Inch 5:28 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 2 E Pease, MN Measurement of 1/2 inch to 3/4-inch size hail provided via NWS Chat.
Hail 0.7 Inch 5:21 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 4 W Hinckley, MN Near the intersection of Dahl Road and Highway 48 in Hinckley.
Wind gust 57 MPH 5:05 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 5 SW Gilman, MN Personal weather station reported wind gust of 57mph.
Hail 0.7 Inch 5:00 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 2 E Sauk Rapids, MN Pea to dime sized.
Hail 1 Inch 5:00 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 Mora, MN —
Hail 0.88 Inch 4:36 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 3 SE Avon, MN Measurement provided via social media. Time estimated via radar.
Hail 0.75 Inch 3:27 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 Kimball, MN Fire Department reports 1/2 to 3/4 inch hail in Kimball.
Hail 1 Inch 2:55 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 Grove City, MN Photo report showing quarter sized hail in Grove City. Time estimated from radar.
Hail 3 Inch 2:53 PM ET Wed, Oct 28 2 SW Grove City, MN Photo submitted via social media of large spikey hailstones. Hail was much larger than quarter size. Time estimated via radar.

Source: National Weather Service local storm reports, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. These reports are preliminary. Forecast Scoreboard is not affiliated with NWS, NOAA, or Iowa State University.

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