Name: Tornado in Minnesota, September 9, 2002
Start: 2002-09-09T23:11
End: 2002-09-09T23:14
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1.4 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 9, 8:00 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 8:00 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
900 PM CDT MON SEP 9 2002

SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED STORMS PROGRESSING EASTWARD...PER
SCHEDULE OF PREV FCST. PRECIP IS GENERALLY ABOUT 50-80 MILES BEHIND
SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. ONE STORM EARLIER THIS EVENING IN RENVILLE
COUNTY MAY HAVE HAD SMALL HAIL BUT HAS SINCE WEAKENED. NO OTHER
STORMS HAVE BECOME AS STRONG AND DOUBT ANY WILL. CURRENT FORECAST
LOOKS VERY GOOD AND NO UPDATES PLANNED ATTM.

.MSP...NONE
TDK

The radar

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Wright

When: September 9, 11:11 PM CST to 11:14 PM CST
Where: Wright County, Albertville
Rating: F1
Path length: 1.1 mi
Path width: 75 yd
Property damage: $1.4 million
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 45.233, -93.667

A rare late night tornado struck a subdivision in Albertville. According to a damage survey conducted by NWS personnel, it touched down on the eastern edge of Cedar Creek Golf Course, trekked straight east, and dissipated in a city park just west of the railroad tracks. It completely tore the roof off of one home. Roofs were partially off a number of other homes, many attached garages collapsed, and a couple of houses were rotated on their foundation. About 20 homes were damaged, nine of which sustained significant damage.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Minnesota in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Minnesota, 2002 Warnings in Minnesota, September 2002

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5319968.