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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2014

45 tornado warnings in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
45
Busiest month
June25 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 19, 201410 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
Mar 31, 4:13 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXYellow Medicine17 min
Mar 31, 4:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXLac qui Parle20 min
Mar 31, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle17 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWatonwan31 min
May 8, 4:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Watonwan35 min
May 8, 5:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet45 min
May 8, 8:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSibley25 min
Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn30 min
Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock32 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk, Red Lake23 min
Jun 5, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock39 min
Jun 11, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena41 min
Jun 16, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles24 min
Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin37 min
Jun 16, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin31 min
Jun 16, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth36 min
Jun 16, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningARXMower34 min
Jun 18, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Yellow Medicine39 min
Jun 18, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon41 min
Jun 18, 10:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDLyon32 min
Jun 18, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon30 min
Jun 18, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRedwood, Yellow Medicine30 min
Jun 19, 4:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXPope, Swift35 min
Jun 19, 4:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXDouglas, Pope, Stevens45 min
Jun 19, 4:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXChippewa, Renville35 min
Jun 19, 4:42 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSwift48 min
Jun 19, 4:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXDouglas, Pope52 min
Jun 20, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin42 min
Jun 20, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Otter Tail, Wilkin40 min
Jun 20, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail48 min
Jun 20, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail50 min
Jun 21, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk51 min
Jul 21, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPennington, Polk, Red Lake47 min
Jul 21, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk33 min
Aug 24, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Morrison37 min
Aug 24, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHAitkin, Crow Wing30 min
Aug 24, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMille Lacs43 min
Aug 24, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec31 min
Aug 24, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMille Lacs24 min
Sep 4, 4:46 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin44 min
Sep 4, 5:06 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena39 min
Sep 4, 5:51 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena39 min
Sep 19, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson45 min
Sep 19, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson33 min
Sep 19, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Roseau45 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. June 19, 201410tornado warnings
  2. June 16, 20144tornado warnings
  3. June 20, 20144tornado warnings
  4. August 24, 20144tornado warnings
  5. March 31, 20143tornado warnings
  6. May 8, 20143tornado warnings
  7. June 5, 20143tornado warnings
  8. September 4, 20143tornado warnings
  9. July 22, 20142tornado warnings
  10. September 19, 20142tornado warnings
  11. May 9, 20141tornado warnings
  12. June 1, 20141tornado 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.