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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2018

31 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
31
Busiest month
June11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 24, 20184 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
Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFClay, Wilkin38 min
Jun 8, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWilkin46 min
Jun 17, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKanabec35 min
Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon31 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMurray26 min
Jun 24, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMurray29 min
Jun 24, 5:36 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRTraverse24 min
Jun 28, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMahnomen, Norman, Polk27 min
Jun 29, 4:31 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman29 min
Jun 29, 4:32 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFMahnomen, Norman, Polk28 min
Jun 29, 4:59 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFClearwater, Polk31 min
Jul 2, 10:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass, Itasca28 min
Jul 4, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn17 min
Jul 8, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail43 min
Jul 8, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail40 min
Jul 11, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami52 min
Jul 11, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami, Lake of the Woods30 min
Jul 11, 10:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHKoochiching33 min
Aug 3, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Meeker26 min
Aug 26, 11:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClearwater, Polk27 min
Aug 27, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami, Lake of the Woods30 min
Aug 27, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXGoodhue, Rice44 min
Sep 4, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele31 min
Sep 4, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn35 min
Sep 4, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWinona20 min
Sep 20, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice, Waseca41 min
Sep 20, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXGoodhue, Rice, Steele35 min
Sep 20, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningARXDodge29 min
Sep 20, 6:49 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXDakota, Goodhue, Rice41 min
Sep 20, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWabasha32 min
Sep 20, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXGoodhue36 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 24, 20184tornado warnings
  2. September 20, 20184tornado warnings
  3. June 29, 20183tornado warnings
  4. July 12, 20183tornado warnings
  5. August 27, 20183tornado warnings
  6. June 8, 20182tornado warnings
  7. July 9, 20182tornado warnings
  8. September 4, 20182tornado warnings
  9. September 21, 20182tornado warnings
  10. June 17, 20181tornado warnings
  11. June 28, 20181tornado warnings
  12. July 3, 20181tornado 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.