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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2013

30 tornado warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
August16 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 6, 20135 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
May 17, 5:47 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDCottonwood, Jackson28 min
May 17, 6:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDJackson33 min
May 19, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWinona35 min
May 31, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningARXOlmsted34 min
Jun 18, 2:03 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown, Redwood42 min
Jun 21, 1:31 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope29 min
Jun 21, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon31 min
Jun 25, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin47 min
Jul 25, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson, Nobles46 min
Aug 6, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXStevens31 min
Aug 6, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope38 min
Aug 6, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWilkin50 min
Aug 6, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi38 min
Aug 6, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine32 min
Aug 24, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFLake of the Woods, Roseau43 min
Aug 26, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Otter Tail37 min
Aug 26, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena46 min
Aug 26, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena49 min
Aug 26, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass37 min
Aug 26, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWadena35 min
Aug 26, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass, Crow Wing48 min
Aug 26, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing44 min
Aug 29, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass23 min
Aug 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAitkin, Cass, Itasca30 min
Aug 29, 6:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDLHAitkin, Cass33 min
Sep 11, 3:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFLake of the Woods51 min
Oct 4, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore25 min
Oct 11, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningABRTraverse13 min
Oct 11, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRTraverse27 min
Oct 11, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Norman, Polk41 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 6, 20135tornado warnings
  2. August 27, 20135tornado warnings
  3. August 29, 20133tornado warnings
  4. October 11, 20133tornado warnings
  5. May 17, 20132tornado warnings
  6. June 21, 20132tornado warnings
  7. August 26, 20132tornado warnings
  8. May 20, 20131tornado warnings
  9. June 1, 20131tornado warnings
  10. June 18, 20131tornado warnings
  11. June 26, 20131tornado warnings
  12. July 25, 20131tornado 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.