Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2002
3 tornado watches in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20022 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Lyon County3
- McLeod County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Watonwan County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Lincoln County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pipestone County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Rock County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Meeker 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.