Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2001
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 8, 20011 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 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rock County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Swift County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.