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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 1999

18 tornado watches in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
June10 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 6, 19996 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
Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 8 more6 hr
Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 17 more6 hr
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more7 hr
Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 20 more6 hr
Jun 5, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 19 more5 hr
Jun 5, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Winona4 hr
Jun 6, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 10 more6 hr
Jun 6, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 32 more5 hr
Jun 6, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Carlton and 44 more7 hr
Jun 25, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 3 more6 hr
Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 4 more5 hr
Jul 25, 11:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 14 more5 hr
Jul 27, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 8 more6 hr
Jul 27, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 29 more6 hr
Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Carver, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon and 12 more6 hr
Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 21 more6 hr
Sep 7, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 3 more6 hr
Sep 7, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower, Olmsted, Winona6 hr

By county

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

46 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 6, 19996tornado watches
  2. July 27, 19993tornado watches
  3. June 5, 19992tornado watches
  4. September 7, 19992tornado watches
  5. June 4, 19991tornado watches
  6. June 25, 19991tornado watches
  7. July 8, 19991tornado watches
  8. July 25, 19991tornado watches
  9. August 9, 19991tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.