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Tornado Watches in Michigan, 2011
9 tornado watches in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 10, 20112 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gogebic, Iron, Ontonagon | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Charlevoix and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Luce and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Berrien, Branch and 36 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Marquette and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 9:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berrien, Branch, Cass, Saint Joseph | 9 hr |
| May 29, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Calhoun, Clare and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Arenac, Barry, Bay and 36 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Arenac County4
- Gladwin County4
- Iosco County4
- Ogemaw County4
- Roscommon County4
- Allegan County4
- Barry County4
- Calhoun County4
- Clinton County4
- Eaton County4
- Genesee County4
- Gratiot County4
- Ingham County4
- Ionia County4
- Jackson County4
- Kalamazoo County4
- Kent County4
- Lapeer County4
- Livingston County4
- Macomb County4
- Montcalm County4
- Oakland County4
- Saginaw County4
- Saint Clair County4
- Sanilac County4
- Shiawassee County4
- Tuscola County4
- Van Buren County4
- Bay County3
- Berrien County3
- Branch County3
- Cass County3
- Clare County3
- Huron County3
- Isabella County3
- Lenawee County3
- Midland County3
- Monroe County3
- Saint Joseph County3
- Washtenaw County3
42 more counties
- Wayne County3
- Ottawa County3
- Gogebic County2
- Iron County2
- Ontonagon County2
- Alcona County2
- Alpena County2
- Manistee County2
- Missaukee County2
- Oscoda County2
- Wexford County2
- Baraga County2
- Dickinson County2
- Marquette County2
- Menominee County2
- Hillsdale County2
- Muskegon County2
- Mecosta County2
- Antrim County1
- Benzie County1
- Charlevoix County1
- Cheboygan County1
- Crawford County1
- Emmet County1
- Grand Traverse County1
- Kalkaska County1
- Leelanau County1
- Montmorency County1
- Otsego County1
- Presque Isle County1
- Alger County1
- Chippewa County1
- Delta County1
- Luce County1
- Mackinac County1
- Schoolcraft County1
- Houghton County1
- Lake County1
- Mason County1
- Newaygo County1
- Oceana County1
- Osceola County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.