Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings / 2020
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, August 2020
38 tornado warnings in August 2020. 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 38
- Busiest day
- August 14, 202023 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Polk | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Marshall | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Marshall | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman | 18 min |
| Aug 9, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Douglas | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | McLeod | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 21 min |
| Aug 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin | 9 min |
| Aug 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 24 min |
| Aug 28, 2:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 30 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Morrison County5
- Stearns County5
- Aitkin County5
- Marshall County4
- Benton County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Cass County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Beltrami County3
- Meeker County3
- Hubbard County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Norman County2
- Kanabec County2
- Itasca County2
- Becker County1
- Clearwater County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Clay County1
- Grant County1
- Douglas County1
- Todd County1
- Jackson County1
- Nobles County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- McLeod County1
- Sherburne County1
- Carver County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Isanti County1
- Carlton County1
- Anoka County1
- Hennepin County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Lincoln County1
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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.