Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 1997
5 tornado watches in August 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 5, 19971 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Hennepin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kittson | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Olmsted County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Kittson County2
- Anoka County2
- Dakota County2
- Fillmore County2
- Hennepin County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Ramsey County2
- Steele County2
- Washington County2
- Clay County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Wilkin County1
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Isanti County1
- Jackson County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.