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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2011

69 tornado warnings in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
69
Busiest month
July31 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 22, 201111 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 10, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHouston43 min
May 10, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright35 min
May 10, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXHennepin35 min
May 10, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Isanti, Sherburne35 min
May 10, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs39 min
May 11, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock32 min
May 21, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXHennepin, Isanti23 min
May 21, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin45 min
May 21, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka35 min
May 22, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey35 min
May 22, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey36 min
May 22, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore62 min
May 22, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Ramsey, Washington30 min
May 22, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago, Washington35 min
May 22, 3:21 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyARXFillmore24 min
May 22, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChisago41 min
May 22, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore, Houston29 min
May 22, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningARXHouston29 min
May 28, 2:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Scott, Sibley36 min
May 28, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHLake45 min
May 28, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Sibley39 min
May 28, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott33 min
May 30, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay43 min
May 30, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk47 min
May 30, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk39 min
May 30, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant48 min
May 30, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk47 min
Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi22 min
Jun 20, 10:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson, Nobles37 min
Jun 20, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDPipestone, Rock30 min
Jun 20, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMurray, Pipestone, Rock30 min
Jun 21, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Goodhue29 min
Jun 21, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi25 min
Jun 21, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Washington24 min
Jun 21, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWabasha48 min
Jun 21, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey32 min
Jul 1, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Pipestone29 min
Jul 1, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln21 min
Jul 1, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Renville23 min
Jul 1, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Renville33 min
Jul 1, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne, Stearns25 min
Jul 1, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine30 min
Jul 4, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson39 min
Jul 4, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk, Red Lake50 min
Jul 4, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk40 min
Jul 4, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay39 min
Jul 10, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson43 min
Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Pope, Stearns39 min
Jul 10, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle35 min
Jul 10, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSwift33 min
Jul 10, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker24 min
Jul 10, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Renville38 min
Jul 10, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMcLeod, Sibley23 min
Jul 15, 5:12 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFWilkin39 min
Jul 16, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Marshall51 min
Jul 16, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Marshall, Roseau48 min
Jul 19, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine27 min
Jul 20, 8:27 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFRoseau48 min
Jul 24, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake46 min
Jul 24, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington, Polk52 min
Jul 30, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail32 min
Jul 30, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing43 min
Jul 30, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing30 min
Jul 30, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXTodd50 min
Jul 30, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse31 min
Jul 30, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs38 min
Jul 30, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXIsanti35 min
Aug 1, 7:13 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas, Pope47 min
Aug 6, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay37 min

By county

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

18 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 22, 201111tornado warnings
  2. June 21, 20118tornado warnings
  3. July 11, 20116tornado warnings
  4. May 11, 20115tornado warnings
  5. May 31, 20115tornado warnings
  6. July 1, 20115tornado warnings
  7. May 28, 20114tornado warnings
  8. July 31, 20114tornado warnings
  9. July 5, 20113tornado warnings
  10. July 30, 20113tornado warnings
  11. July 17, 20112tornado warnings
  12. April 10, 20111tornado 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.