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Tornado in Grant County, Minnesota

Tornado August 21, 2025 · Grant County, Minnesota

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Not rated

0.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Relayed from emergency manager. Brief landspout type tornado west of Norcross. No damage reported.

The wider storm

A severe thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Pennington County in northwest MN during the evening. A cluster of storms moving into west central Minnesota also produced several brief weak landspout type tornadoes in Grant County, but produced no reported damage.

Began near Norcross (45.8700, -96.2400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Grant County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282436. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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