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Tornado Statistics
Minnesota Tornadoes - 2003

Date County Location Time (cdt) Path Length (miles) Path Width (yards) F Rating Injuries Deaths
May 14

Brown

 3 E Sleepy Eye to 5 E Sleepy Eye 1250 - 1255 2 25 0 0 0
May 29 Clearwater 1 E Gonvick 2300 0.2 50 0 0 0
June 6 Becker 7 WSW Ogema 1637 - 1641 0.5 50 0 0 0
June 6 Becker 5 W Ogema 1656 - 1659 0.2 25 0 0 0
June 22 Pope 4 SW Glenwood 1950 0.2 50 1 0 0
June 24 Lincoln 13 E Hendricks 1738 0.1 50 0 0 0
June 24 Pope 5 S Starbuck 1755 0.2 25 0 0 0
June 24 Renville/Sibley 8 SSW Buffalo Lake to 10 NNW Gibbon 1846 - 1856 4.5 100 1 0 0
June 24 Sibley/Renville 12 N Gibbon to 4 E Buffalo Lake 1930 - 1945 3 50 0 0 0
June 24 Sibley/Renville 10NNW Gibbon to 1 N Buffalo Lake 1933 - 1950 5.5 880 2 5 0
June 24 Kandiyohi 5 SSW Kandiyohi 1945 0.1 25 0 0 0
June 24 Kandiyohi 4 SSW Kandiyohi 1948 - 1951 0.2 100 0 0 0
June 24 Kandiyohi 4 S Kandiyohi 1953 - 1956 0.2 50 0 0 0
June 24 Kandiyohi 4 S Kandiyohi 1958 0.1 50 0 0 0
June 24 Kandiyohi 4 SE Kandiyohi to 2 SSE Kandiyohi 2003 - 2007 3 50 1 0 0
June 24 Sibley/Renville 12 NNW Gibbon to 1 ESE Buffalo Lake 2010 - 2013 1.5 100 1 0 0
June 24 Kandiyohi/Meeker 5 S Atwater to 5 SW Grove City 2015 - 2018 0.5 50 0 0 0
June 24 Yellow Medicine/Chippewa 6 NW Granite Falls to 1 NE Wegdahl 2038 - 2042 3 50 0 0 0
June 24 Renville 1.5 NE Churchill to 4 NNE Churchill 2039 - 2047 2.5 100 0 0 0
June 24 Chisago 4 NE Stacy 2050 0.3 25 0 0 0
June 28 CrowWing Roosevelt Lake 1932 0.1 15 0 0 0
July 2 Beltrami 1 N Redby 1550 0.2 10 0 0 0
July 6 Beltrami 6 ENE Redby 1730 0.2 10 0 0 0
July 6 OtterTail 7.5 SE Dalton to 8.5 SE Dalton 1930 - 1933 1 50 1 0 0
July 9 Stevens 3 SW Chokio to .5 SW Chokio 1530 - 1536 3 50 0 0 0
July 9 Swift 7 W Clontarf 1650 0.2 25 0 0 0
July 9 Swift 4 W Danvers to 1 SE Danvers 1700 - 1710 5 50 1 0 0
July 9 Swift 3 SE Danvers 1715 0.2 25 0 0 0
July 9 Kandiyohi 2 W Pennock to 1 E Pennock 1750 - 1755 3 220 1 0 0
July 9 BlueEarth 5 NW Lake Crystal 1740 0.2 25 0 0 0
July 9 BlueEarth Lake Crystal 1800 0.2 25 0 0 0
July 14 Kittson 2.5 S St. Vincent to 3 SSE St. Vincent 1540 - 1543 0.5 25 0 0 0
July 14 Cottonwood 5 SE Walnut Grove 1705 NA NA 0 0 0
July 14 St. Louis 4 S Side Lake to 6 NNW Chisholm 2026 - 2036 0.1 25 0 0 0
July 14 Washington Forest Lake 1930 0.1 25 0 0 0
July 14 Brown 6 W Searles 1930 - 1935 2 50 0 0 0
July 14 Brown 1 N Searles 1952 0.1 25 0 0 0
July 14 BlueEarth 3 E Lake Crystal 2020 - 2021 0.5 50 2 0 0
July 14 BlueEarth 2.5 NW Rapidan to 1.5 N Rapidan 2022 - 2025 2.5 50 1 0 0
July 14 BlueEarth 1.5 NE Rapidan to 3.5 NE Rapidan 2027 - 2031 3 220 1 0 0
July 14 BlueEarth 4 SSE Mankato to 6 SE Mankato 2034 - 2037 2 100 1 0 0
July 14 BlueEarth 3 NE St. Clair to 4.5 NE St. Clair 2043 - 2048 1.5 220 2 0 0
July 14 Waseca 1 W Janesville 2055 0.1 50 0 0 0
July 19 Todd 12 S Staples 1545 0.2 50 0 0 0
July 19 Todd/Morrison 8 ENE Long Prairie to 5 N Swanville 1600 - 1605 3 50 0 0 0
July 19 Morrison 5 NW Flensburg to 3 NW Flensburg 1615 - 1620 2 50 0 0 0
August 25 Roseau 4.5 SSW Wannaska to 5.5 SSW Wannaska 1905 - 1908 1 40 1 0 0

Illustration of 2003 Minnesota Tornadoes

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