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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pine River, 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 River, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 30 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 5 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
30

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
5

13 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Pine River

By decade

  • 2020s5
  • 2010s2
  • 2000s5
  • 1990s2(1 EF3+)
  • 1970s8(1 EF3+)
  • 1960s8(3 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Pine River, Minnesota
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Aug 6, 1969F49 mi32.3 mi12 / 70
Jun 11, 1966F46 mi72.8 mi0 / 0
Jul 5, 1991F317 mi6 mi0 / 3
Aug 26, 1977F320 mi26.3 mi0 / 11
Aug 6, 1969F39 mi17.3 mi0 / 4
Jun 12, 2024EF222 mi14.66 mi0 / 0
Jun 12, 2024EF27 mi3.16 mi0 / 0
May 30, 2022EF224 mi10.47 mi0 / 0
Aug 26, 1977F211 mi110.4 mi0 / 10
Jul 5, 1991F118 mi0.3 mi1 / 0
May 30, 2022EF115 mi4.3 mi0 / 0
Aug 7, 2020EF124 mi6.18 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 30, 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 River 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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