Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2016
77 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 77
- Busiest month
- June35 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 14, 201613 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice, Steele, Waseca | 13 min |
| Apr 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 16 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 45 min |
| May 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 38 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Waseca | 19 min |
| Jun 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 7:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca, Saint Louis | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, Swift | 27 min |
| Jun 19, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 18 min |
| Jun 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge | 22 min |
| Jun 22, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 17 min |
| Jul 5, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 28 min |
| Jul 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 17 min |
| Jul 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 26 min |
| Jul 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 11 min |
| Jul 16, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Jul 19, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Polk, Red Lake | 33 min |
| Aug 28, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Mahnomen, Norman | 49 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Stearns County13
- Polk County7
- Meeker County6
- Aitkin County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Benton County5
- Norman County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Swift County4
- Sherburne County4
- Red Lake County4
- Rice County3
- Steele County3
- Todd County3
- Morrison County3
- Big Stone County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Waseca County2
- Nobles County2
- Jackson County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Wadena County2
- Roseau County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Chippewa County2
- Carlton County2
- Dodge County2
- Freeborn County1
- Clay County1
- Pipestone County1
- Watonwan County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Traverse County1
- Cass County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Pine County1
- Pope County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.