Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings / 2023

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, May 2023

4 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
4
Busiest day
May 6, 20234 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.

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

By county

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

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.