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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2000
13 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- July5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 7, 20002 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Crow Wing and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 5 hr |
| Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Mahnomen and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kandiyohi County6
- McLeod County6
- Meeker County6
- Renville County6
- Wright County6
- Fillmore County5
- Houston County5
- Winona County5
- Otter Tail County5
- Anoka County5
- Benton County5
- Carver County5
- Hennepin County5
- Ramsey County5
- Sibley County5
- Stearns County5
- Swift County5
- Clay County4
- Wilkin County4
- Dakota County4
- Douglas County4
- Grant County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Morrison County4
- Mower County4
- Olmsted County4
- Pope County4
- Scott County4
- Sherburne County4
- Stevens County4
- Todd County4
- Wabasha County4
- Washington County4
- Chippewa County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Becker County3
- Clearwater County3
- Mahnomen County3
39 more counties
- Norman County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Chisago County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Dodge County3
- Nicollet County3
- Wadena County3
- Watonwan County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Polk County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Rice County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Pine County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Rock County2
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Cass County1
- Hubbard County1
- Lincoln County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19992001
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.