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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Osakis, 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 Osakis, Minnesota since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 67 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
67

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
4

1 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Osakis

By decade

  • 2020s9
  • 2010s18(1 EF3+)
  • 2000s13(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s7
  • 1980s3
  • 1970s5
  • 1960s9(2 EF3+)
  • 1950s3
Strongest tornadoes near Osakis, Minnesota
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Jun 17, 2010EF421 mi39.56 mi1 / 5
Jun 13, 2001F323 mi12 mi0 / 3
Jun 18, 1964F318 mi6.2 mi0 / 13
May 5, 1964F324 mi4.3 mi0 / 0
May 30, 2022EF27 mi19.63 mi0 / 0
Oct 26, 1996F218 mi9 mi0 / 4
Jun 1, 1990F212 mi10 mi0 / 0
Sep 3, 1980F221 mi1 mi0 / 0
Jul 18, 1970F214 mi3 mi0 / 5
May 5, 1965F215 mi24.3 mi0 / 0
Jul 7, 1959F210 mi13 mi0 / 0
Aug 3, 2024EF119 mi5.36 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 Osakis 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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