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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2017

57 tornado warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
57
Busiest month
July23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 16, 20178 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 6, 4:50 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXWright25 min
Mar 6, 5:26 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXSherburne, Wright20 min
Mar 6, 5:44 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXIsanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne31 min
May 17, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth33 min
May 17, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele21 min
May 17, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet19 min
Jun 7, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk35 min
Jun 7, 1:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall47 min
Jun 7, 2:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk47 min
Jun 11, 7:34 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker26 min
Jun 13, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Swift45 min
Jun 13, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Stevens, Swift57 min
Jun 13, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXStevens38 min
Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXDouglas, Pope, Stevens32 min
Jun 13, 7:02 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFGrant43 min
Jun 21, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin24 min
Jun 21, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin49 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXOlmsted21 min
Jun 28, 6:46 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedARXWinona23 min
Jul 9, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXStevens, Swift33 min
Jul 9, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone13 min
Jul 9, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSwift28 min
Jul 9, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle39 min
Jul 9, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXNicollet30 min
Jul 9, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth41 min
Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall50 min
Jul 11, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall, Polk39 min
Jul 11, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk43 min
Jul 11, 7:19 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFNorman, Polk41 min
Jul 11, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPennington, Polk, Red Lake27 min
Jul 11, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay, Norman, Polk46 min
Jul 11, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman41 min
Jul 17, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison, Todd38 min
Jul 17, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas45 min
Jul 17, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison41 min
Jul 17, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDouglas, Stearns, Todd35 min
Jul 17, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis34 min
Jul 19, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown24 min
Jul 19, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningARXDodge, Olmsted24 min
Jul 19, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore19 min
Jul 25, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln33 min
Jul 25, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Scott29 min
Aug 16, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Nicollet23 min
Aug 16, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXNicollet, Sibley36 min
Aug 16, 5:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXNicollet46 min
Aug 16, 5:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSibley55 min
Aug 16, 6:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXSibley40 min
Aug 16, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMcLeod, Sibley46 min
Aug 16, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice44 min
Aug 16, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSibley38 min
Aug 16, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Hennepin, Scott20 min
Aug 16, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, McLeod31 min
Aug 18, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles27 min
Aug 18, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles26 min
Sep 19, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk52 min
Sep 19, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk, Red Lake44 min
Sep 24, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Stearns27 min

By county

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

5 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 16, 20178tornado warnings
  2. July 10, 20176tornado warnings
  3. July 12, 20175tornado warnings
  4. June 13, 20174tornado warnings
  5. July 17, 20174tornado warnings
  6. March 6, 20173tornado warnings
  7. May 17, 20173tornado warnings
  8. June 7, 20173tornado warnings
  9. July 19, 20173tornado warnings
  10. June 21, 20172tornado warnings
  11. June 28, 20172tornado warnings
  12. July 11, 20172tornado 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.