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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2021

45 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
45
Busiest month
August15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 28, 202111 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 10, 4:13 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Rice, Scott14 min
Mar 10, 4:23 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXLe Sueur, Rice, Waseca26 min
Mar 10, 4:36 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Rice, Scott24 min
Mar 10, 4:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Rice28 min
Mar 10, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXDakota, Rice30 min
May 19, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele, Waseca25 min
May 19, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRice36 min
May 19, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXCarver, Le Sueur, Scott, Sibley34 min
May 19, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRice40 min
May 19, 8:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXDakota, Scott50 min
May 19, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXDakota17 min
Jul 26, 5:13 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFBeltrami47 min
Jul 26, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami43 min
Jul 26, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass, Itasca21 min
Jul 26, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCass, Itasca30 min
Jul 28, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHPine32 min
Aug 8, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles31 min
Aug 9, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk25 min
Aug 20, 6:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXStearns37 min
Aug 28, 11:24 AM CDTTornado WarningMPXStearns36 min
Aug 28, 12:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Mille Lacs41 min
Aug 28, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDRock30 min
Aug 28, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMurray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock24 min
Aug 28, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDNobles36 min
Aug 28, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood, Murray34 min
Aug 28, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood, Murray32 min
Aug 28, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles26 min
Aug 28, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCottonwood30 min
Aug 28, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown, Redwood26 min
Aug 28, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown, Nicollet24 min
Aug 28, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBrown30 min
Sep 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMorrison, Todd33 min
Sep 16, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMille Lacs, Morrison43 min
Sep 16, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMille Lacs, Morrison23 min
Sep 20, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningARXFillmore27 min
Oct 9, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse21 min
Oct 10, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHItasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis34 min
Oct 10, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHSaint Louis18 min
Oct 10, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHCook39 min
Oct 13, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse40 min
Dec 15, 6:55 PM CSTTornado WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn35 min
Dec 15, 7:38 PM CSTTornado WarningARXFillmore, Houston37 min
Dec 15, 7:49 PM CSTTornado WarningARXOlmsted14 min
Dec 15, 7:58 PM CSTTornado WarningARXWinona47 min
Dec 15, 8:01 PM CSTTornado WarningARXWabasha44 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. August 28, 202111tornado warnings
  2. May 20, 20216tornado warnings
  3. March 10, 20215tornado warnings
  4. December 16, 20215tornado warnings
  5. July 26, 20214tornado warnings
  6. October 10, 20213tornado warnings
  7. September 16, 20212tornado warnings
  8. July 29, 20211tornado warnings
  9. August 8, 20211tornado warnings
  10. August 10, 20211tornado warnings
  11. August 20, 20211tornado warnings
  12. August 29, 20211tornado 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.