Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2010
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2010
10 tornado watches in August 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 August 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- August 12, 20102 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, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carver and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 21 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Renville County7
- Chippewa County6
- Kandiyohi County6
- McLeod County6
- Meeker County6
- Swift County6
- Wright County6
- Sherburne County5
- Stearns County5
- Sibley County5
- Big Stone County4
- Douglas County4
- Grant County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Pope County4
- Stevens County4
- Todd County4
- Traverse County4
- Wilkin County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Carver County4
- Dakota County4
- Hennepin County4
- Ramsey County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Redwood County4
- Benton County3
- Morrison County3
- Anoka County3
- Chisago County3
- Isanti County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Nicollet County3
- Watonwan County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
41 more counties
- Pipestone County3
- Becker County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Norman County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Wadena County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Martin County2
- Rice County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Pine County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Beltrami County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Roseau 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.