Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, April 2004
5 tornado watches in April 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 April 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20044 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County2
- Dodge County2
- Faribault County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Houston County2
- Martin County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Winona County2
- Carver County2
- Hennepin County2
- Ramsey County2
- Washington County2
- Wabasha County2
- Aitkin County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Carlton County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Cook County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lake County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Otter Tail County1
24 more counties
- Pine County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Brown County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Nicollet County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
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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.