Tornadoes · United States · Minnesota

2024 tornadoes in Minnesota

30 tornadoes touched down in Minnesota in 2024, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2024

May 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:10 PM CDT	EF0	Dodge	1.2	50
May 20	6:25 PM CDT	EF0	Dodge	1.4	35

May 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 21	3:48 PM CDT	EF0	Martin	2.3	75
May 21	5:41 PM CDT	EF0	Goodhue	0.7	25
May 21	6:01 PM CDT	EF1	Winona to WI	19.7	110	$320,000

June 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 2	6:18 PM CDT	EF0	Renville	0.3	25

June 12 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 12	6:08 PM CDT	EF1	Lake	4.2	150
June 12	6:18 PM CDT	EF2	Crow Wing	3.2	700	$500,000
June 12	6:42 PM CDT	EF0	Carlton	7.8	50	$50,000
June 12	6:45 PM CDT	EF2	Crow Wing	14.7	200	$1.1 million
June 12	7:03 PM CDT	EF1	Aitkin	4.7	50	$500,000
June 12	7:25 PM CDT	EF0	Aitkin	1.6	20

June 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 24	6:19 PM CDT	EF0	Roseau	0.5	50

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	2:17 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Louis	1.9	30

July 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 13	4:59 PM CDT	Unrated	Rice	0.5	20

July 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	7:14 AM CDT	EF0	Chippewa	2.2	25

August 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 3	8:11 PM CDT	EF1	Stearns	5.4	1,000			$2.0 million

August 5 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 5	5:26 PM CDT	EF1	Watonwan	2.3	50
August 5	6:19 PM CDT	EF1	Waseca	6.1	150
August 5	6:58 PM CDT	EF1	Waseca	1.4	50
August 5	7:28 PM CDT	EF0	Faribault	4.8	50
August 5	7:50 PM CDT	EF1	Freeborn	6.5	150
August 5	8:18 PM CDT	EF0	Mower	1.0	30
August 5	8:43 PM CDT	EF0	Mower	2.7	70	$5,000

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	6:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Brown	0.3	25

August 29 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 29	3:35 PM CDT	EF1	Morrison	7.5	50
August 29	4:26 PM CDT	EF1	Anoka	3.6	250
August 29	4:32 PM CDT	EF1	Anoka	9.6	250
August 29	5:46 PM CDT	EF0	Dakota to WI	7.9	50

September 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 19	5:05 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Louis	5.9	200			$100,000

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.