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Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2025
135 tornado warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 135
- Busiest month
- June78 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 16, 202524 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns, Wright | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Sherburne | 22 min |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice, Steele, Waseca | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 19 min |
| Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray, Pipestone | 12 min |
| May 15, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 28 min |
| May 15, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Stevens, Swift | 38 min |
| May 15, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott | 10 min |
| May 15, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 26 min |
| May 15, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 39 min |
| May 15, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 20 min |
| May 15, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 41 min |
| May 15, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns, Todd | 23 min |
| May 15, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 22 min |
| May 15, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 24 min |
| May 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 23 min |
| May 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall, Roseau | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Todd | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Itasca | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Crow Wing | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Wright | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 22 min |
| Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver | 17 min |
| Jun 16, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet | 18 min |
| Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 12 min |
| Jun 21, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 20 min |
| Jun 21, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 12:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 1:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching | 22 min |
| Jun 21, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Saint Louis | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 1:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Itasca, Saint Louis | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 14 min |
| Jun 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 22 min |
| Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Rice | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 12 min |
| Jun 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 19 min |
| Jun 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 20 min |
| Jun 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Winona | 21 min |
| Jun 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Houston | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Houston | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Steele | 16 min |
| Jun 26, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge, Olmsted | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 23 min |
| Jun 28, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle | 21 min |
| Jun 28, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Swift | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi | 12 min |
| Jun 28, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 19 min |
| Jun 28, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Stearns | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Renville | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 12:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Koochiching, Saint Louis | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 9:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Redwood | 11 min |
| Jul 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Traverse | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Sherburne, Wright | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 4:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall, Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Waseca | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Waseca | 21 min |
| Aug 21, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Traverse | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Big Stone | 30 min |
| Sep 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet | 30 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Waseca County9
- Blue Earth County8
- Faribault County8
- Steele County8
- Stearns County7
- Freeborn County7
- Lac qui Parle County7
- Meeker County6
- Aitkin County6
- Crow Wing County6
- Swift County6
- Otter Tail County6
- Polk County6
- Itasca County6
- Saint Louis County6
- Norman County6
- Wright County5
- Rice County5
- Wadena County5
- Koochiching County5
- Yellow Medicine County5
- Benton County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Goodhue County4
- Hennepin County4
- Cass County4
- Nicollet County4
- Carver County4
- Chippewa County4
- Cottonwood County3
- Sherburne County3
- Scott County3
- Todd County3
- Marshall County3
- Roseau County3
- Hubbard County3
- Beltrami County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Dodge County3
- Olmsted County3
33 more counties
- Houston County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Big Stone County3
- Murray County2
- Martin County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pope County2
- Wilkin County2
- Morrison County2
- Carlton County2
- Pine County2
- Becker County2
- Fillmore County2
- Mower County2
- Kittson County2
- Renville County2
- Redwood County2
- Traverse County2
- Lyon County2
- Isanti County1
- Pipestone County1
- Stevens County1
- Grant County1
- Anoka County1
- Ramsey County1
- Wabasha County1
- McLeod County1
- Clearwater County1
- Winona County1
- Sibley County1
- Dakota County1
- Clay County1
- Mahnomen County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.