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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2003

24 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
July12 tornado watches
Busiest day
July 14, 20034 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
May 10, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston5 hr
Jun 22, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater and 27 more6 hr
Jun 22, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJackson, Nobles, Rock5 hr
Jun 23, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 15 more4 hr
Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood and 2 more8 hr
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 35 more6 hr
Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 2 more5 hr
Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 7 more5 hr
Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 30 more6 hr
Jul 4, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 8 more6 hr
Jul 6, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 11 more8 hr
Jul 6, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 30 more6 hr
Jul 6, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 6 more6 hr
Jul 9, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 15 more6 hr
Jul 9, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota and 23 more5 hr
Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Kittson and 9 more5 hr
Jul 14, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles and 3 more6 hr
Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 36 more5 hr
Jul 14, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCook, Lake, Saint Louis4 hr
Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 11 more4 hr
Aug 20, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Itasca, Kanabec, Lake and 2 more5 hr
Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more5 hr
Aug 25, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCItasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis6 hr
Aug 25, 11:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine6 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 14, 20034tornado watches
  2. June 25, 20033tornado watches
  3. June 22, 20032tornado watches
  4. July 7, 20032tornado watches
  5. August 26, 20032tornado watches
  6. May 10, 20031tornado watches
  7. June 23, 20031tornado watches
  8. June 24, 20031tornado watches
  9. July 3, 20031tornado watches
  10. July 5, 20031tornado watches
  11. July 6, 20031tornado watches
  12. July 9, 20031tornado watches

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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.