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Tornado in Clearwater County, Minnesota

Tornado June 23, 2026 · Clearwater County, Minnesota

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Not rated

2.7 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

As a supercell tracked over rural Clearwater County south of Bagley after several attempts and funnel cloud reports earlier in the lifecycle of the storm a brief ground circulation was noted to the northwest of Upper Rice Lake. No damage was noted from the storm chaser that reported the brief tornado with video evidence only showing intermittent visible ground contact.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms including several low top supercells produced large hail, damaging wind, and one tornado in northwest MN.

Began near Bagley (47.4200, -95.3900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1347950. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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