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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pine City, MN

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Pine City, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 46 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 2 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
46

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
2

4 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Pine City

By decade

  • 2020s3
  • 2010s5
  • 2000s13(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s10
  • 1980s5
  • 1970s1
  • 1960s5
  • 1950s4(1 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Pine City, Minnesota
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
May 21, 1957F48 mi9.2 mi0 / 2
Jun 18, 2001F315 mi34 mi2 / 16
Jun 17, 2010EF28 mi7.82 mi0 / 2
Sep 18, 1997F221 mi17 mi0 / 0
Jul 3, 1985F224 mi33 mi0 / 0
May 5, 1965F210 mi14.3 mi0 / 0
Jun 10, 1968F119 mi0.3 mi1 / 2
Sep 16, 1955F118 mi10.4 mi1 / 0
May 30, 2022EF113 mi3.3 mi0 / 0
Jul 17, 2020EF119 mi2.96 mi0 / 0
Jun 11, 2005F118 mi6 mi0 / 0
Jun 25, 2002F124 mi1 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 46, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Pine City while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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