Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, April 2026

53 severe thunderstorm warnings in April 2026. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 53
Busiest day: April 13, 202620 severe thunderstorm warnings

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By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn	22 min
Apr 13, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	41 min
Apr 13, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Goodhue	43 min
Apr 13, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MPX	Rice	35 min
Apr 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Goodhue	61 min
Apr 13, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	53 min
Apr 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Martin, Watonwan	48 min
Apr 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	44 min
Apr 13, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Murray, Nobles	53 min
Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Nicollet	50 min
Apr 13, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	64 min
Apr 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles	46 min
Apr 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Le Sueur, Rice	61 min
Apr 13, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet	56 min
Apr 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice	65 min
Apr 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson	48 min
Apr 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Nobles, Rock	50 min
Apr 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Martin	65 min
Apr 13, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	58 min
Apr 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Watonwan	67 min
Apr 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	53 min
Apr 13, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca	53 min
Apr 13, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Martin	35 min
Apr 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Jackson, Nobles	56 min
Apr 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Steele	53 min
Apr 13, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	66 min
Apr 13, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin, Watonwan	23 min
Apr 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	29 min
Apr 13, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Faribault, Freeborn	60 min
Apr 13, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Freeborn	51 min
Apr 13, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Jackson	49 min
Apr 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ARX	Mower	62 min
Apr 13, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	Martin	17 min
Apr 13, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ARX	Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Winona	40 min
Apr 13, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston	63 min
Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ARX	Fillmore	41 min
Apr 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston	45 min
Apr 17, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca	43 min
Apr 17, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	39 min
Apr 17, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue	50 min
Apr 17, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	8 min
Apr 17, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	36 min
Apr 17, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge, Olmsted	47 min
Apr 17, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	33 min
Apr 17, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Carlton, Lake, Saint Louis	61 min
Apr 23, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod, Meeker, Wright	28 min
Apr 23, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Meeker, Stearns, Wright	33 min
Apr 23, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Benton, Mille Lacs, Sherburne	28 min
Apr 23, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan	24 min
Apr 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan	30 min
Apr 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Freeborn, Steele	44 min
Apr 23, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge, Mower, Olmsted	57 min
Apr 23, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Winona	59 min

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.