Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 1997
5 tornado watches in July 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 July 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- July 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Rock and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Martin County4
- Watonwan County4
- Cottonwood County3
- Dodge County3
- Jackson County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Rice County3
- Rock County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pipestone County2
- Ramsey County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Fillmore County2
- Goodhue County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Brown 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.