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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Glencoe, 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 Glencoe, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 98 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 4 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
98

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
4

5 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Glencoe

By decade

  • 2020s9
  • 2010s21
  • 2000s15
  • 1990s24(1 EF3+)
  • 1980s14
  • 1970s7
  • 1960s6(2 EF3+)
  • 1950s2(1 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Glencoe, Minnesota
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
May 6, 1965F421 mi12.3 mi3 / 175
Jun 19, 1951F411 mi52.6 mi1 / 20
Jun 16, 1992F317 mi10 mi0 / 8
May 6, 1965F32 mi15.5 mi0 / 0
May 6, 1965F212 mi11.2 mi1 / 175
Jun 24, 2003F222 mi5.5 mi0 / 5
Jun 13, 1983F213 mi1 mi0 / 0
Jul 27, 1977F217 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Jun 23, 1952F215 mi104.8 mi0 / 10
May 30, 2022EF15 mi18.49 mi0 / 0
Aug 14, 2020EF13 mi2.44 mi0 / 0
Jul 25, 2020EF112 mi1.89 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 98, 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 Glencoe 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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