Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 2004
5 tornado watches in July 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 July 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- July 2, 20041 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Becker County2
- Clay County2
- Kittson County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Wilkin County2
- Jackson County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Big Stone County2
- Chippewa County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Wadena County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
33 more counties
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Mower County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pine County1
- Pipestone County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Todd County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright 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.