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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Windom, 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 Windom, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 67 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 3 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
67

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
3

1 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Windom

By decade

  • 2020s11
  • 2010s14
  • 2000s15(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s5(1 EF3+)
  • 1980s6
  • 1970s9(1 EF3+)
  • 1960s5
  • 1950s2
Strongest tornadoes near Windom, Minnesota
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Mar 29, 1998F412 mi73.5 mi1 / 19
Aug 1, 2006F321 mi1.5 mi0 / 0
May 31, 1971F317 mi46.5 mi0 / 0
Jun 16, 1992F216 mi7.5 mi0 / 0
Aug 9, 1977F223 mi5.6 mi0 / 0
Jun 14, 1976F23 mi13.5 mi0 / 6
Jul 16, 1963F222 mi5.2 mi0 / 0
May 18, 1962F222 mi42.4 mi0 / 0
Jun 23, 1952F212 mi104.8 mi0 / 10
Aug 5, 2024EF124 mi2.26 mi0 / 0
May 11, 2022EF115 mi0.88 mi0 / 0
May 11, 2022EF117 mi3.47 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 67, 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 Windom 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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