Tornado Anniversaries

Lake Martin EF4 · Jun 16, 2025

Ah yes. Today is the date of the Chandler, MN F5 of 1992...

Chandler-Lake Wilson Minnesota F5 Tornado of June 16, 1992

Chandler, MN F5 Tornado – June 16, 1992 – Tornado Talk

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1992 Chandler–Lake Wilson tornado - Wikipedia

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Chandler–Lake Wilson Tornado, 1992 | MNopedia

On June 16, 1992, an F5 tornado devastated the towns of Chandler and Lake Wilson in Murray County. It was the most powerful tornado recorded in the US that year and the eighth F5 to touch down in Minnesota, reaching wind speeds in excess of 260 miles per hour and causing over $50 million in...

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...and the Day of the Twins in 2014. That supercell produced potentially up to 4 EF5 strength tornadoes. Consecutively. And, at one point, two were on the ground simultaneously. Truly one of the greatest tornadic events of all time. The town of Pilger must have pissed Mother Nature off something fierce to essentially roll tornadic snake eyes like it did. IMO this is probably the only time in history that 2 E/F5 strength tornadoes hit a town simultaneously.

June 16, 2014 Pilger Tornado Event

Pilger, Nebraska Twin Tornadoes: How They Happened and How Unusual They Were | The Weather Channel

How do twin tornadoes happen? We use the June 16, 2014 Pilger, Nebraska case to explain the science.

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The Town Too Tough To Die: The Pilger Tornadoes - 10 Years Later

On June 16, 2014, four EF-4 tornadoes touched down in Northeast Nebraska in an event that is still studied by meteorologists and weather scientists today. One of them tore through the Village of Pilger, Nebraska, damaging or destroying over half of the buildings in the Stanton County town.

www.ktiv.com

Skip Talbot's June 16, 2014 Chase Log

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Unthinkable Twin EF4 Tornadoes - Pilger

On June 16th, 2014, a supercell thunderstorm over Northeastern Nebraska produced 4 EF4 tornadoes, with instances of two on the ground at the same time. For s...

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Pilger, NE Twin Tornado Coverage (June 16, 2014) - The Weather Channel

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Pilger Tornado HD - Weather Adventures

On June 16, 2014, Weather Adventures witnessed multiple tornadoes near Stanton, NE and Pilger, NE. While downtown Stanton was spared, Pilger impacted directl...

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Pilger & Wakefield, NE Twin EF-4 Tornadoes: Life Cycles

See more: http://www.brentkoopsphotography.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/brentkoopsphotographyThis chase video documents our viewpoint arriving on the Pil...

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DAY OF THE TWINS - Tornado terror in Nebraska

The Pilger Twin EF-4 tornadoes, The Wayne County line satellite and birth of the Wakefield EF-4 tornado. Full story w/ radar and commentary. To license HD t...

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Fastest Tornado in the World - Pilger Twin Wedge Tornado - Nebraska 16th June 2014

Storm chaser and spotter, Daniel Shaw, tracks the double tornado event in the and near the town of Pilger, Nebraska.

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Storm recap: Deadly tornadoes rip through Pilger

The National Weather Service said the storm that hit northeast Nebraska on Monday appears to have produced four tornadoes, one of which ravaged the town of P...

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Surviving the Pilger Tornado

Reporter: Vanessa BrownPhotographer/Editor: Keith Stueven

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Pilger Tornado Damage From Air 2014

The town of Pilger Nebraska devastated by a twin tornado on June 16th 2014. Footage Taken the morning of 6-17-14.

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One of those likely E/F5s was moving at a terrifying 96 miles per hour by the end, the fastest confirmed tornadic forward speed on record. This was covered along with some other notable speedy bois by Pecos Hank and friends here:

FASTEST MOVING TORNADO - New World Record

Introducing the fastest moving tornado ever recorded. In this video we discuss 5 scary fast tornadoes, each one with a forward moving velocity faster than t...

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And, of course, the map:

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Kds86z · Tuesday at 10:47 AM

AJS · Tuesday at 11:03 AM

Kds86z said:

Coleridge was almost certainly capable of producing extreme damage. The ground scouring found throughout the path was insane.

Kds86z · Tuesday at 11:06 AM

AJS said:
Coleridge was almost certainly capable of producing extreme damage. The ground scouring found throughout the path was insane.

Kds86z · Tuesday at 11:08 AM

AJS said:
Coleridge was almost certainly capable of producing extreme damage. The ground scouring found throughout the path was insane.

Wow. Day after pilger event.

Lake Martin EF4 · Tuesday at 8:18 PM

Oh s

t I forgot how important today was in tornado history. June 17th!

1882: Grinnell, IA F5

1882 Grinnell tornado - Wikipedia

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Destruction and Rebirth: The Cyclone of 1882

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On This Date: F5 Tornado Roared Through An Iowa College | Weather.com

Seventy years before the first public tornado warning and over a century prior to a nationwide Doppler radar network, the most violent of tornadoes tore through an Iowa town.

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1944: Wilmot, SD F5

1944 South Dakota–Minnesota tornado outbreak - Wikipedia

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1944 – June 17, Tornadoes, esp. Florence, Wilmot and Bath, SD (13); Big Stone, MN — 13 – Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-of-Life Events

June 17, 1944 still remembered across northeast South Dakota

It was one of the deadliest days in South Dakota history.

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Stella Braves The Storm

Week 16: #52 Ancestors – Storms By Eilene Lyon Stella Gusso didn’t ordinarily let the farm dog in the house, but something didn’t feel right. The building clouds were ominous-looking. Stella’s husb…

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2010: The Upper Midwest outbreak including violent tornadoes in ND and MN, with 2 particularly intense.ones near Parker's Prairie, MN and Wadena, MN that MIGHT have reached EF5 intensity but you can't be sure.

June 17, 2010 Tornado Outbreak

June 17, 2010 Wadena, MN and Almora-Bluffton, MN EF4 Tornadoes

June 17, 2010 - Significant Tornado Outbreak in Northern Plains

Deadly tornadoes: June 17, 2010

www.dnr.state.mn.us

Skip Talbot's June 17, 2010 Chase Log

Storm Chase Log: Tornado Outbreak in Minnesota - Ben Holcomb

Major tornado outbreak in Minnesota where I managed to miss all the tornadoes and Forecasted Convective Amplification Deficiency.

www.benholcomb.com

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSg4cTGp-ow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlKss-csq8&pp=ygUdanVuZSAxNyAyMDEwIHRvcm5hZG8gb3V0YnJlYWs=
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7yKuIgd_Nck&pp=ygUdanVuZSAxNyAyMDEwIHRvcm5hZG8gb3V0YnJlYWs=

2014: Coleridge, NE EF3 (likely EF5 in actuality):

Coleridge Tornado

Skip Talbot's June 17, 2014 Chase Log

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https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm8cfElEZ1ieXpQOeSMMxgyU0w7ThX3DC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lS3eHElMy3Q&pp=ygUWY29sZXJpZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNNIHCQneCQGHKiGM7w==
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxAx191f54&pp=ygUWY29sZXJpZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNA==
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hN9wDth8yoE&pp=ygUbY29sZXJpZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNCByZWVk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3waI...pZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNCByZWVk0gcJCd4JAYcqIYzv
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jTXME2F20Ok&pp=ygUbY29sZXJpZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNCByZWVk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Ki7...lIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNCByYWRhctIHCQneCQGHKiGM7w==
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtBtr4vvg1g&pp=ygUWY29sZXJpZGdlIHRvcm5hZG8gMjAxNA==

Map:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1ldzj0c/strongest_tornado_on_this_day_in_history_by/

Lake Martin EF4 · Wednesday at 9:04 PM

It's nice to only have one notable recent tornado event to cover for a change.

June 18th, 2014. Alpena, South Dakota. Though the worst structural damage was to a very poorly anchored house, the contextuals leave little doubt that this was an EF5. If @TH2002's post is to be trusted, then EF5 can be argued for the aforementioned house as is.

EF-4 Tornado Damage near Alpena, SD on June 18, 2014

Summary of Tornadoes from 18 June 2014

Map. Notice the pretty bad day Minneapolis-St. Paul seems to have had:

Lake Martin EF4 · Friday at 4:02 AM

Let's make this quick:

1957: Fargo, ND F5

Fargo 1957 F5 Tornado

Fargo, ND F5 Tornado – June 20, 1957 – Tornado Talk

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Fargo tornado - Wikipedia

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Fargo, ND June 20, 1957 F5 Tornado — Highways & Hailstones

Recounting the historical F5 tornado that struck Fargo, ND in 1957.

highwaysandhailstones.com

https://nwafiles.nwas.org/digest/papers/2011/Vol35No1/Pg27-Schultz-etal.pdf

60 years later, Fargo's 1957 tornado still haunts

FARGO — Ray Jensen had been keeping his trained eye on the increasingly ominous western sky for more than an hour when he saw a tornado descend from a wall cloud at the end of a line of thunderstorms.

www.inforum.com

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrQsx1RYEY&pp=ygUNZmFyZ28gdG9ybmFkb9IHCQm-CQGHKiGM7w==
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXLhDG-ipg&pp=ygUNZmFyZ28gdG9ybmFkbw==
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yTPKEy3fb3k&pp=ygUNZmFyZ28gdG9ybmFkbw==

2011: KS/NE outbreak

June 20, 2011: Tornado Outbreak - Including 2 EF3 and 4 EF2 Tornadoes

June 20, 2011 | Tornadoes And Strong Winds At CWS

On June 20, 2011, Omaha and eastern Nebraska had a tornado outbreak with 70mph winds moving through the metro during CWS.

www.3newsnow.com

Kds86z · Friday at 11:19 AM

Kds86z · Friday at 2:57 PM

CheeselandSkies · Friday at 7:23 PM

Not really a tornado anniversary per se (although some chasers say there was a brief one associated with the feature in the first photo but my chase partners and I didn't see it). 10 years ago OTD (6/20/2015) was this chase near Eddyville, IA. The second photo was my avatar here and all the other weather forums I'm on for the next nearly eight years, until I finally caught a tornado worthy of replacing it (Keota).

Video at timestamp linked in this compilation (also this day provided the thumbnail):

Aaron Rider · Friday at 7:31 PM

Lake Martin EF4 said:
Ah yes. Today is the date of the Chandler, MN F5 of 1992...

Chandler-Lake Wilson Minnesota F5 Tornado of June 16, 1992

Chandler, MN F5 Tornado – June 16, 1992 – Tornado Talk

www.tornadotalk.com

1992 Chandler–Lake Wilson tornado - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chandler–Lake Wilson Tornado, 1992 | MNopedia

On June 16, 1992, an F5 tornado devastated the towns of Chandler and Lake Wilson in Murray County. It was the most powerful tornado recorded in the US that year and the eighth F5 to touch down in Minnesota, reaching wind speeds in excess of 260 miles per hour and causing over $50 million in...

www3.mnhs.org

...and the Day of the Twins in 2014. That supercell produced potentially up to 4 EF5 strength tornadoes. Consecutively. And, at one point, two were on the ground simultaneously. Truly one of the greatest tornadic events of all time. The town of Pilger must have pissed Mother Nature off something fierce to essentially roll tornadic snake eyes like it did. IMO this is probably the only time in history that 2 E/F5 strength tornadoes hit a town simultaneously.

June 16, 2014 Pilger Tornado Event

Pilger, Nebraska Twin Tornadoes: How They Happened and How Unusual They Were | The Weather Channel

How do twin tornadoes happen? We use the June 16, 2014 Pilger, Nebraska case to explain the science.

weather.com

The Town Too Tough To Die: The Pilger Tornadoes - 10 Years Later

On June 16, 2014, four EF-4 tornadoes touched down in Northeast Nebraska in an event that is still studied by meteorologists and weather scientists today. One of them tore through the Village of Pilger, Nebraska, damaging or destroying over half of the buildings in the Stanton County town.

www.ktiv.com

Skip Talbot's June 16, 2014 Chase Log

www.skip.cc

Unthinkable Twin EF4 Tornadoes - Pilger

On June 16th, 2014, a supercell thunderstorm over Northeastern Nebraska produced 4 EF4 tornadoes, with instances of two on the ground at the same time. For s...

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Pilger, NE Twin Tornado Coverage (June 16, 2014) - The Weather Channel

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Pilger Tornado HD - Weather Adventures

On June 16, 2014, Weather Adventures witnessed multiple tornadoes near Stanton, NE and Pilger, NE. While downtown Stanton was spared, Pilger impacted directl...

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Pilger & Wakefield, NE Twin EF-4 Tornadoes: Life Cycles

See more: http://www.brentkoopsphotography.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/brentkoopsphotographyThis chase video documents our viewpoint arriving on the Pil...

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DAY OF THE TWINS - Tornado terror in Nebraska

The Pilger Twin EF-4 tornadoes, The Wayne County line satellite and birth of the Wakefield EF-4 tornado. Full story w/ radar and commentary. To license HD t...

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Fastest Tornado in the World - Pilger Twin Wedge Tornado - Nebraska 16th June 2014

Storm chaser and spotter, Daniel Shaw, tracks the double tornado event in the and near the town of Pilger, Nebraska.

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Storm recap: Deadly tornadoes rip through Pilger

The National Weather Service said the storm that hit northeast Nebraska on Monday appears to have produced four tornadoes, one of which ravaged the town of P...

m.youtube.com

Surviving the Pilger Tornado

Reporter: Vanessa BrownPhotographer/Editor: Keith Stueven

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Pilger Tornado Damage From Air 2014

The town of Pilger Nebraska devastated by a twin tornado on June 16th 2014. Footage Taken the morning of 6-17-14.

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One of those likely E/F5s was moving at a terrifying 96 miles per hour by the end, the fastest confirmed tornadic forward speed on record. This was covered along with some other notable speedy bois by Pecos Hank and friends here:

FASTEST MOVING TORNADO - New World Record

Introducing the fastest moving tornado ever recorded. In this video we discuss 5 scary fast tornadoes, each one with a forward moving velocity faster than t...

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And, of course, the map:

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The speed of that tornado - 96 MPH - is so preposterous it's hard to believe. For example, when a 410 cubic inch sprint car is at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa, one of the fastest dirt tracks in the world, it is over that speed in the main straightaway, but under it at many other times on the track. I grew up around that kind of racing, and let me tell you, those things are FAST. A tornado making sprint car speeds ... utterly mind-boggling to this day.

Heck, for most of human history we didn't have anything mechanical that could go that fast.

CheeselandSkies · Friday at 7:56 PM

I maintain that when talking speed records there should be a clear distinction kept between high end sustained forward speed along the track (often seen in high-shear outbreak scenarios like Tri-State, Palm Sunday '65 and both Super Outbreaks, which seems to top out around 70 MPH) and speeds achieved by occluded/rope tornadoes being yeeted around the tornado cyclone of the next member of the family (as in the Pilger case). Still impressive, though.

Kds86z · Saturday at 10:32 AM

Brice W · Saturday at 4:19 PM

I can’t imagine the damage this would’ve inflicted had it been its peak in town. The contextuals are very indicative of a higher rating than what it got.

Lake Martin EF4 · Saturday at 7:37 PM

Two years ago...

Matador, Texas Tornado of June 21, 2023

Storm Chase Log: Matador Texas Tornado - Ben Holcomb

A large and deadly cone tornado touches down and goes into the town of Matador, Texas on June 21, 2023.

www.benholcomb.com

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4FjIuz69II&pp=ygUUbWF0YWRvciB0b3JuYWRvIDIwMjM=
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSGLOgHpsg&pp=ygUdbWF0YWRvciB0b3JuYWRvIDIwMjMgcGxheWxpc3Q=

Map:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1lh7awc/strongest_tornado_on_this_day_in_history_by/

CheeselandSkies · 2025-06-22T13:23:35-0500

10 years ago OTD a small but intense tornado outbreak occurred in eastern Iowa and northern Illinois. However most of the tornadoes were rain-wrapped and close to/after dark. I got on a supercell near Dixon/Amboy, IL as it turned right along the outflow boundary from morning storms in Wisconsin (which had displaced the modeled target area from there, a lot of chasers including the TIV group had originally targeted Madison).

My view to the northwest at US-52 and Green Wing Rd. northwest of Sublette, IL. That wall of rain contains an EF2 tornado which would shortly strike the Woodhaven Lakes campground about 2 miles to the west (they would be hit by another EF2 during the outbreak of March 31, 2023).

Had I held my ground here or moved south on Green Wing and then a bit west on Tower Road and allowed the rain or "bear's cage" to overtake me, I might have been able to get a view of the actual tornado. However, I was mindful of what had happened to the TWISTEX crew in Oklahoma then just two years prior, and leery of chasing within the bear's cage of an HP, especially in the "notch" to the left of the tornado's track. I used US-52, a nice paved road whose northwest-southeast orientation here was perfect for putting distance on the storm, to give the action area a wide berth before dropping south in front of it.

The ground-scraping inflow band, looking north across 52. Those clouds were flying from right to left, toward the tornado.

The only halfway decent DSLR shot I got of the storm, on IL-251 south of Mendota looking north, just a minute or two (per survey) before the start of an EF1 tornado in Mendota.

Damage in Mendota. Trying to get back through that city to go home, I encountered multiple streets blocked by either downed trees or flooding.

The storm went on to produce an EF3 tornado which did significant damage in Coal City/Braidwood, Illinois over an hour later and well after dark.

Video from this chase is at the timestamp linked:

Kds86z · 2025-06-23T11:47:57-0500

One of my favorite tornado photos EVER. The top left sunset ef3.

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