Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2006
7 tornado watches in August 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 24, 20063 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 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 43 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse, Wilkin | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Goodhue County3
- Big Stone County3
- Chippewa County3
- Douglas County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Pope County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Clay County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Traverse County2
- Wilkin County2
- Benton County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Murray County2
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
32 more counties
- Rock County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Wright County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Becker County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dodge County1
- Hennepin County1
- Mower County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sibley County1
- Washington County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Nobles 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.