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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2025
10 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- June6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20252 tornado watches
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, 12:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 19 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 5 hr |
| May 15, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carver, Cass, Chisago and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kandiyohi County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Pope County4
- Stearns County4
- Anoka County4
- Benton County4
- Carver County4
- Chisago County4
- Freeborn County4
- Goodhue County4
- Hennepin County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Ramsey County4
- Scott County4
- Sherburne County4
- Steele County4
- Wabasha County4
- Winona County4
- Wright County4
- Grant County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Brown County3
- Nicollet County3
- Sibley County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Watonwan County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Dakota County3
- Dodge County3
- Faribault County3
- Fillmore County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Pine County3
- Rice County3
45 more counties
- Waseca County3
- Washington County3
- Houston County3
- Cass County3
- Douglas County3
- Morrison County3
- Todd County3
- Wadena County3
- Wilkin County3
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Murray County2
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Aitkin County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Hubbard County2
- Itasca County2
- Becker County2
- Clay County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Traverse County2
- Jackson County1
- Nobles County1
- Rock County1
- Carlton County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Kittson County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Roseau County1
- Big Stone County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.