Waseca & southern Minnesota · Dated source record
Weather & Event Record
The actual events beside the mirror-world stories.
This starter archive keeps two selected events with official sources. It is a historical companion, not a current forecast, complete weather census, or ongoing alert service.
NLP News can follow the human impact with separate reporting. Nexus Engine Dispatches can follow a fictional echo. These entries preserve the event dates and geographic scope.
2026-09-18 to 2026-09-19
Southern Minnesota rain and flooding
Area: Far southern and southeastern Minnesota, including southern Waseca County and New Richland
Minnesota DNR describes repeated thunderstorms and damaging flooding across far southern and southeastern Minnesota. Its account identifies southern Waseca County among the affected areas and reports evacuations and displacement in New Richland.
Minnesota DNR: Extreme Rain and Flood, September 18–19, 2026
County-area effects must not be generalized to all of Waseca city. No resident interviews or independently checked local impact counts are included.
Parallel-world story: Dispatch 002 — The Seam Beneath the Rain · Fiction
2016-09-21 to 2016-09-22
Waseca-area flash flooding
Area: Waseca area and northwestern Twin Cities suburbs, with separate local impacts
The DNR historical rainfall catalogue records extensive flash-flood damage in the Waseca area during September 21–22, 2016. The entry says the storm did not have enough geographic coverage to meet its mega-rain definition.
Minnesota DNR: Historic mega-rain events — September 21–22, 2016 entry
This summary does not establish a property-level damage list, a local rainfall total or a real-world Bubble mechanism.
No parallel-world dispatch is attached yet.
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