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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2008

19 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
July7 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 25, 20083 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more5 hr
May 24, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more3 hr
May 25, 2:04 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 29 more6 hr
May 25, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook and 14 more6 hr
May 25, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona4 hr
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lincoln and 9 more7 hr
Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 15 more8 hr
Jun 6, 10:28 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 17 more5 hr
Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more8 hr
Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lincoln and 12 more7 hr
Jun 11, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 13 more5 hr
Jul 5, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more7 hr
Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 3 more3 hr
Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more6 hr
Jul 11, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 39 more6 hr
Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 27 more8 hr
Jul 19, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFillmore, Houston, Winona5 hr
Jul 28, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Traverse4 hr
Aug 3, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 31 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

47 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 25, 20083tornado watches
  2. June 6, 20082tornado watches
  3. July 11, 20082tornado watches
  4. July 19, 20082tornado watches
  5. May 1, 20081tornado watches
  6. May 26, 20081tornado watches
  7. June 5, 20081tornado watches
  8. June 7, 20081tornado watches
  9. June 11, 20081tornado watches
  10. June 12, 20081tornado watches
  11. July 5, 20081tornado watches
  12. July 7, 20081tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.