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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2002
13 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 5 hr |
| May 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Wabasha, Winona | 5 hr |
| May 30, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin, Mower and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Carlton, Cass, Clay, Crow Wing and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 5 hr |
| Sep 30, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 9 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Murray County5
- Nobles County5
- Fillmore County4
- Winona County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Martin County4
- Pipestone County4
- Rock County4
- Brown County4
- Dakota County4
- Goodhue County4
- Hennepin County4
- McLeod County4
- Ramsey County4
- Rice County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Watonwan County4
- Houston County3
- Mower County3
- Wabasha County3
- Carlton County3
- Pine County3
- Chippewa County3
- Traverse County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Carver County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Nicollet County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Lyon County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Olmsted County2
36 more counties
- Becker County2
- Big Stone County2
- Cass County2
- Clay County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Todd County2
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Dodge County2
- Wright County2
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Lincoln County2
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Morrison County1
- Benton County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Meeker County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.