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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2015

57 tornado warnings in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
57
Busiest month
July28 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 12, 201517 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 16, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLac qui Parle16 min
May 16, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone30 min
May 16, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Swift25 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSwift36 min
May 16, 5:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXChippewa, Swift23 min
May 16, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSwift34 min
May 16, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Swift34 min
May 16, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMcLeod, Meeker, Renville30 min
May 16, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Swift26 min
May 16, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker25 min
May 16, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker35 min
May 16, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas, Pope31 min
May 16, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMeeker, Stearns35 min
May 28, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall29 min
Jun 7, 2:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall, Polk47 min
Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca30 min
Jun 27, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall, Polk41 min
Jun 27, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Otter Tail, Wilkin52 min
Jun 27, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant, Otter Tail52 min
Jun 27, 9:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRTraverse36 min
Jun 27, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse23 min
Jul 12, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Otter Tail, Wilkin52 min
Jul 12, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk42 min
Jul 12, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin39 min
Jul 12, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin39 min
Jul 12, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Marshall41 min
Jul 12, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant, Otter Tail, Wilkin38 min
Jul 12, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin42 min
Jul 12, 5:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFGrant, Otter Tail, Wilkin38 min
Jul 12, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena41 min
Jul 12, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas47 min
Jul 12, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant, Otter Tail45 min
Jul 12, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Wilkin52 min
Jul 12, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas, Todd51 min
Jul 12, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena50 min
Jul 12, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant49 min
Jul 12, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass33 min
Jul 12, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas47 min
Jul 12, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison, Todd45 min
Jul 12, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Stevens36 min
Jul 12, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison, Todd42 min
Jul 12, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas30 min
Jul 12, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope48 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall27 min
Jul 17, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone37 min
Jul 17, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse36 min
Jul 18, 12:01 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Wright29 min
Jul 18, 1:57 AM CDTTornado WarningARXWabasha22 min
Jul 24, 6:54 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn, Steele21 min
Aug 6, 4:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXKandiyohi, Swift36 min
Aug 6, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi31 min
Aug 6, 5:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXKandiyohi31 min
Aug 6, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXYellow Medicine37 min
Aug 6, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi30 min
Aug 6, 6:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXMeeker, Stearns23 min
Aug 8, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis36 min
Aug 12, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFKittson, Marshall, Roseau39 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. July 12, 201517tornado warnings
  2. May 16, 20157tornado warnings
  3. May 17, 20156tornado warnings
  4. August 6, 20156tornado warnings
  5. July 13, 20155tornado warnings
  6. June 28, 20154tornado warnings
  7. July 18, 20154tornado warnings
  8. May 28, 20151tornado warnings
  9. June 7, 20151tornado warnings
  10. June 17, 20151tornado warnings
  11. June 27, 20151tornado warnings
  12. July 14, 20151tornado 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.