Tornadoes · United States · Minnesota

2023 tornadoes in Minnesota

24 tornadoes touched down in Minnesota in 2023, 17 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2022 2024 The whole country in 2023

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Minnesota in 2023

May 6 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 6	5:42 PM CDT	EF0	Renville	1.6	25	$15,000
May 6	6:18 PM CDT	Unrated	Renville	1.0	25
May 6	6:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Lac qui Parle	2.3	25
May 6	6:31 PM CDT	Unrated	Renville	1.6	25

May 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	1:42 PM CDT	EF0	Cottonwood	1.5	25

June 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 10	2:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Cottonwood	0.1	10
June 10	5:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Murray	0.1	10

June 24 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 24	3:18 PM CDT	Unrated	Becker	1.8	20
June 24	3:18 PM CDT	Unrated	Becker	1.8	20
June 24	3:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Norman	3.0	20
June 24	3:52 PM CDT	Unrated	Mahnomen	0.3	10
June 24	4:00 PM CDT	Unrated	Mahnomen	0.2	10
June 24	4:10 PM CDT	EF0	Norman	1.5	10
June 24	4:12 PM CDT	EF0	Norman	2.0	20
June 24	4:15 PM CDT	EF2	Mahnomen	6.2	250	$56,000
June 24	4:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Becker	0.5	10
June 24	4:44 PM CDT	Unrated	Polk	0.5	10
June 24	4:49 PM CDT	Unrated	Polk	0.9	10

July 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 19	2:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Beltrami	0.5	20

July 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 25	11:01 PM CDT	EF0	Kandiyohi	1.4	75

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	7:14 PM CDT	EF0	Nobles	1.3	50			$10,000

September 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 23	3:56 PM CDT	Unrated	Nobles	0.0	10
September 23	4:14 PM CDT	Unrated	Lac qui Parle	0.3	25

September 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 29	7:48 PM CDT	EF0	Wright	0.7	25

Nearby

Every tornado in Minnesota since 1950 Warnings in force in Minnesota The live radar over Minnesota

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.