Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 2008
7 tornado watches in July 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 July 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- July 11, 20082 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 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County4
- Norman County4
- Kittson County3
- Marshall County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Wilkin County3
- Becker County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Roseau County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
- McLeod County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Wright County2
- Aitkin County1
- Beltrami County1
- Benton County1
- Cass County1
- Chippewa County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Douglas County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Stearns County1
37 more counties
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Jackson County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Olmsted County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Rock County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Winona 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.