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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 1997

19 tornado watches in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
June5 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 22, 19972 tornado watches

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 10 more6 hr
Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 13 more5 hr
Jun 22, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more5 hr
Jun 22, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone5 hr
Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston, Pine, Wabasha, Winona6 hr
Jun 27, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCKittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more6 hr
Jul 1, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 45 more6 hr
Jul 1, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more5 hr
Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 5 more6 hr
Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 12 more6 hr
Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Rock and 1 more6 hr
Aug 5, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more6 hr
Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 34 more6 hr
Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Winona6 hr
Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Hennepin and 7 more6 hr
Aug 31, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCKittson6 hr
Sep 18, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing and 9 more7 hr
Oct 11, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more6 hr
Oct 11, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCTraverse6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

41 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 22, 19972tornado watches
  2. October 12, 19972tornado watches
  3. May 18, 19971tornado watches
  4. June 19, 19971tornado watches
  5. June 24, 19971tornado watches
  6. June 27, 19971tornado watches
  7. July 1, 19971tornado watches
  8. July 2, 19971tornado watches
  9. July 7, 19971tornado watches
  10. July 16, 19971tornado watches
  11. July 24, 19971tornado watches
  12. August 5, 19971tornado watches

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.