Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2003
4 tornado watches in August 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 August 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20032 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 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Itasca, Kanabec, Lake and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Itasca County2
- Kanabec County2
- Pine County2
- Chisago County1
- Lake County1
- Washington County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Koochiching County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Mille Lacs 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.