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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2001

18 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
June8 tornado watches
Busiest day
July 18, 20013 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
Apr 11, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 12 more6 hr
May 1, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 24 more6 hr
May 1, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Isanti, Itasca and 6 more5 hr
May 9, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 25 more6 hr
Jun 11, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing and 12 more6 hr
Jun 11, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 39 more5 hr
Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJackson, Nobles, Rock6 hr
Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock and 1 more5 hr
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 13 more5 hr
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Crow Wing, Douglas and 29 more6 hr
Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 4 more6 hr
Jun 18, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 3 more5 hr
Jul 17, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 23 more5 hr
Jul 18, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more6 hr
Jul 18, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Roseau4 hr
Jul 31, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more6 hr
Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 4 more5 hr
Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 19 more6 hr

By county

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

47 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 18, 20013tornado watches
  2. May 1, 20012tornado watches
  3. June 11, 20012tornado watches
  4. June 13, 20012tornado watches
  5. April 11, 20011tornado watches
  6. May 9, 20011tornado watches
  7. June 12, 20011tornado watches
  8. June 14, 20011tornado watches
  9. June 17, 20011tornado watches
  10. June 19, 20011tornado watches
  11. July 31, 20011tornado watches
  12. August 8, 20011tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.