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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2023

24 tornado warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
24
Busiest month
June10 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 24, 202310 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
May 6, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa23 min
May 6, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi, Renville28 min
May 6, 6:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMPXKandiyohi34 min
May 6, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXKandiyohi, Renville36 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFBecker, Mahnomen, Norman37 min
Jun 24, 3:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFNorman34 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXWaseca29 min
Jun 24, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk45 min
Jun 24, 3:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFBecker, Mahnomen, Norman47 min
Jun 24, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNorman, Polk46 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFMahnomen, Polk38 min
Jun 24, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk27 min
Jun 24, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMahnomen, Polk50 min
Jun 24, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk25 min
Jul 13, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk32 min
Jul 13, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRoseau46 min
Jul 19, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami44 min
Jul 19, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDLHItasca, Saint Louis18 min
Aug 1, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFMarshall38 min
Aug 1, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington43 min
Aug 11, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXLe Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley16 min
Aug 11, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSteele11 min
Aug 11, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningARXDodge, Olmsted35 min
Aug 13, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson30 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, 202310tornado warnings
  2. May 6, 20234tornado warnings
  3. August 11, 20233tornado warnings
  4. July 13, 20232tornado warnings
  5. July 19, 20232tornado warnings
  6. August 1, 20232tornado warnings
  7. August 14, 20231tornado 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.