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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2010

31 tornado watches in 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
31
Busiest month
July11 tornado watches
Busiest day
July 14, 20105 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 24, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 7 more8 hr
May 24, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Traverse5 hr
Jun 17, 12:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more9 hr
Jun 17, 1:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 46 more8 hr
Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more9 hr
Jun 17, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more7 hr
Jun 23, 1:29 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston7 hr
Jun 25, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 38 more8 hr
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 24 more7 hr
Jul 10, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker and 11 more3 hr
Jul 13, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more9 hr
Jul 14, 1:02 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCTraverse6 hr
Jul 14, 3:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clay and 15 more5 hr
Jul 14, 9:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Chisago and 26 more9 hr
Jul 14, 11:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more7 hr
Jul 14, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more8 hr
Jul 17, 12:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver and 39 more11 hr
Jul 17, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more5 hr
Jul 23, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 7 more5 hr
Jul 27, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 38 more7 hr
Aug 1, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 16 more7 hr
Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carver and 39 more8 hr
Aug 7, 11:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 12 more4 hr
Aug 10, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault and 19 more6 hr
Aug 12, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 18 more7 hr
Aug 12, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 20 more4 hr
Aug 13, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more6 hr
Aug 30, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more6 hr
Aug 30, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 11 more5 hr
Aug 30, 11:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 21 more6 hr
Sep 15, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 20 more6 hr

By county

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

45 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 14, 20105tornado watches
  2. June 17, 20104tornado watches
  3. May 24, 20102tornado watches
  4. July 17, 20102tornado watches
  5. August 12, 20102tornado watches
  6. August 30, 20102tornado watches
  7. June 23, 20101tornado watches
  8. June 25, 20101tornado watches
  9. June 26, 20101tornado watches
  10. July 10, 20101tornado watches
  11. July 13, 20101tornado watches
  12. July 24, 20101tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.