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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2009
8 tornado watches in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- June5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 18, 20092 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Jackson and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Wabasha, Winona | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Dodge County4
- Faribault County4
- Fillmore County4
- Freeborn County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Martin County4
- Mower County4
- Nicollet County4
- Rice County4
- Steele County4
- Wabasha County4
- Waseca County4
- Watonwan County4
- Winona County4
- Goodhue County3
- Houston County3
- Olmsted County3
- Jackson County3
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Chisago County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Dakota County2
- Douglas County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Pope County2
- Ramsey County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
29 more counties
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Todd County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Big Stone County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Pipestone County1
- Traverse County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Pine County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.