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The National Weather Service’s Twin Cities office issued a tornado warning for Hastings, MN at 4:53 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, after radar showed a storm able to produce a tornado. It was updated 3 times over the next 21 minutes, raising the hail it warned of to 2.75 inches, baseball size, at 5:05 PM CDT. About 16,000 people were inside it. It ended at 5:20 PM CDT. It was one of 12 warnings in Minnesota that day, 2 of them tornado warnings.
How it unfolded
The same day
- Tornado warning for Pine County, MN and Burnett County, WI5:16 PM CDT to 5:38 PM CDT · 16,500 people
- Storms over the Twin Cities2:44 PM CDT to 5:32 PM CDT · 4.6 million people
- Storms over Des Moines6:54 PM CDT to 10:38 PM CDT · 2.8 million people
- Severe storm warning in Lakeville, MN4:34 PM CDT to 4:56 PM CDT · 270,000 people
- Severe storm warning in Willmar, MN1:10 PM CDT to 1:44 PM CDT · 34,500 people
- Severe storm warning near Zimmerman, MN4:16 PM CDT to 4:56 PM CDT · 30,900 people
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