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What happened
The National Weather Service’s Duluth office issued a tornado warning for Pine County, MN and Burnett County, WI at 5:11 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, after radar showed a storm able to produce a tornado. It was updated once over the next 16 minutes. About 16,500 people were inside it. It ended at 5:38 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 in Hastings, MN4:58 PM CDT to 5:20 PM CDT · 16,000 people
- Storms over the Twin Cities2:44 PM CDT to 5:32 PM CDT · 4.6 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
- Severe storm warning in Faribault, MN3:58 PM CDT to 4:28 PM CDT · 18,100 people