Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 2003
12 tornado watches in July 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 July 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- July 14, 20034 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Kittson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 11 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carver County5
- McLeod County5
- Watonwan County5
- Aitkin County4
- Anoka County4
- Benton County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Hennepin County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Meeker County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Ramsey County4
- Renville County4
- Sherburne County4
- Stearns County4
- Todd County4
- Wadena County4
- Wright County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Dodge County4
- Freeborn County4
- Martin County4
- Steele County4
- Waseca County4
- Brown County4
- Nicollet County4
- Sibley County4
- Dakota County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Rice County4
- Scott County4
- Carlton County3
- Chippewa County3
- Chisago County3
- Douglas County3
- Isanti County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Morrison County3
- Pine County3
- Pope County3
47 more counties
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Washington County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Faribault County3
- Jackson County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Cass County3
- Itasca County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Goodhue County3
- Mower County3
- Big Stone County2
- Kanabec County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Traverse County2
- Wilkin County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Koochiching County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Redwood County2
- Cook County2
- Lake County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Grant County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Winona 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.