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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2004
25 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 25
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20044 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 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman | 5 hr |
| May 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Isanti and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 7 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Pope and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 49 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carlton, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Martin County10
- Watonwan County10
- Mower County9
- Jackson County9
- Brown County9
- Blue Earth County8
- Dodge County8
- Faribault County8
- Fillmore County8
- Freeborn County8
- Steele County8
- Waseca County8
- Chippewa County8
- Kandiyohi County8
- Lyon County8
- Meeker County8
- Redwood County8
- Renville County8
- Stearns County8
- Yellow Medicine County8
- Cottonwood County8
- Nicollet County8
- Carver County7
- Hennepin County7
- Lac qui Parle County7
- McLeod County7
- Pope County7
- Ramsey County7
- Stevens County7
- Swift County7
- Nobles County7
- Le Sueur County7
- Rice County7
- Sibley County7
- Houston County6
- Olmsted County6
- Winona County6
- Grant County6
- Washington County6
- Wright County6
47 more counties
- Murray County6
- Dakota County6
- Goodhue County6
- Scott County6
- Wabasha County6
- Anoka County5
- Benton County5
- Douglas County5
- Isanti County5
- Lincoln County5
- Pine County5
- Sherburne County5
- Todd County5
- Big Stone County5
- Traverse County5
- Rock County5
- Chisago County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Morrison County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Clay County4
- Norman County4
- Pipestone County4
- Carlton County3
- Wadena County3
- Wilkin County3
- Becker County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Aitkin County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Lake County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Koochiching County2
- Kittson County2
- Marshall County2
- Roseau County2
- Cook County1
- Cass County1
- Itasca County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.