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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2004

98 tornado warnings in 2004. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
98
Busiest month
May25 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 18, 200412 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn26 min
Apr 18, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Kanabec23 min
Apr 18, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Kanabec21 min
Apr 18, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine61 min
Apr 18, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSherburne37 min
Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec30 min
Apr 18, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti48 min
Apr 18, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles44 min
Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown26 min
Apr 18, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown, Redwood43 min
Apr 18, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood25 min
Apr 18, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown45 min
Apr 18, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXScott36 min
Apr 18, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota26 min
Apr 28, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis46 min
Apr 28, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis33 min
Apr 28, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis64 min
Apr 28, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHLake63 min
Apr 28, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCook, Lake62 min
May 9, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi29 min
May 9, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi31 min
May 9, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker, Stearns47 min
May 9, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Sherburne, Wright26 min
May 9, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin49 min
May 9, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock32 min
May 9, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles30 min
May 11, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin41 min
May 11, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin45 min
May 11, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail46 min
May 11, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin44 min
May 11, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail46 min
May 11, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail45 min
May 19, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson65 min
May 19, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk47 min
May 19, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall59 min
May 19, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson46 min
May 19, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay40 min
May 19, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall64 min
May 26, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson, Nobles25 min
May 26, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock43 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson45 min
May 30, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSherburne23 min
May 30, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXGoodhue40 min
May 30, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago, Washington40 min
Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago42 min
Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault33 min
Jun 11, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth40 min
Jun 11, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca39 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn, Steele35 min
Jun 11, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore, Mower67 min
Jun 11, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningARXDodge53 min
Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore, Mower, Olmsted60 min
Jun 12, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXYellow Medicine36 min
Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore67 min
Jun 16, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore, Houston27 min
Jul 10, 8:30 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay45 min
Jul 12, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay58 min
Jul 12, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay41 min
Jul 12, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail65 min
Jul 12, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay46 min
Jul 13, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena60 min
Jul 13, 4:08 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Yellow Medicine22 min
Jul 31, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles25 min
Jul 31, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles30 min
Aug 2, 2:53 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFWilkin37 min
Aug 2, 3:04 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail41 min
Aug 2, 3:46 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail44 min
Aug 8, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Roseau47 min
Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson32 min
Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson46 min
Aug 8, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Isanti, Sherburne63 min
Aug 8, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson61 min
Aug 8, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami38 min
Aug 8, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Roseau62 min
Aug 25, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi23 min
Aug 25, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi32 min
Aug 29, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall47 min
Aug 29, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk48 min
Aug 29, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXTodd34 min
Aug 29, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison27 min
Aug 29, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison23 min
Sep 5, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles45 min
Sep 5, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca36 min
Sep 5, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn26 min
Sep 5, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi38 min
Sep 5, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRice35 min
Sep 5, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele27 min
Sep 5, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson33 min
Sep 5, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson12 min
Sep 5, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXGoodhue39 min
Sep 5, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca34 min
Oct 29, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Morrison52 min
Oct 29, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti27 min
Oct 29, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti29 min
Oct 29, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine52 min
Oct 29, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec22 min
Oct 29, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago42 min
Oct 29, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine64 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

10 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 18, 200412tornado warnings
  2. September 5, 200410tornado warnings
  3. June 11, 20046tornado warnings
  4. July 13, 20046tornado warnings
  5. August 8, 20046tornado warnings
  6. October 29, 20046tornado warnings
  7. May 9, 20045tornado warnings
  8. April 28, 20044tornado warnings
  9. May 12, 20044tornado warnings
  10. May 20, 20044tornado warnings
  11. May 27, 20043tornado warnings
  12. August 2, 20043tornado warnings

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.