Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2000
3 tornado watches in August 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 August 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 12, 20001 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kandiyohi County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Wright County3
- Anoka County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Jackson County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Ramsey County2
- Redwood County2
- Rock County2
- Scott County2
- Swift County2
- Washington County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Benton County2
- Stearns County2
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted 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. Rebuilt daily.