Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings / 2024
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, August 2024
23 tornado warnings in August 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 23
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20249 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 3, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 19 min |
| Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Watonwan | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele, Waseca | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Mower | 10 min |
| Aug 5, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs, Morrison | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan | 23 min |
| Aug 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 17 min |
| Aug 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chisago | 20 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County5
- Freeborn County5
- Watonwan County4
- Faribault County4
- Waseca County3
- Stearns County2
- Steele County2
- Mower County2
- Chisago County2
- Benton County1
- Sherburne County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Fillmore County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Brown County1
- Aitkin County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Anoka County1
- Isanti 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.