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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2011

21 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
July7 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 10, 20112 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
Apr 9, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFillmore, Houston, Mower5 hr
Apr 10, 3:19 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCFillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona7 hr
May 10, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 18 more6 hr
May 22, 12:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 27 more7 hr
May 22, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPine5 hr
May 30, 2:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock7 hr
May 30, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Benton, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 25 more7 hr
May 30, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 43 more5 hr
Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Lake, Pine and 1 more5 hr
Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Traverse, Wilkin5 hr
Jun 17, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, McLeod, Meeker and 8 more7 hr
Jun 20, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJackson, Nobles, Rock6 hr
Jun 20, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFaribault, Freeborn, Martin4 hr
Jun 21, 2:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston and 7 more7 hr
Jul 8, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Clay, Traverse, Wilkin7 hr
Jul 10, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse, Wilkin7 hr
Jul 16, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more7 hr
Jul 17, 12:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more3 hr
Jul 17, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin6 hr
Jul 22, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Traverse, Wilkin8 hr
Jul 26, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Otter Tail and 6 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. April 10, 20112tornado watches
  2. May 22, 20112tornado watches
  3. May 30, 20112tornado watches
  4. June 21, 20112tornado watches
  5. July 17, 20112tornado watches
  6. May 10, 20111tornado watches
  7. May 31, 20111tornado watches
  8. June 3, 20111tornado watches
  9. June 17, 20111tornado watches
  10. June 18, 20111tornado watches
  11. June 20, 20111tornado watches
  12. July 8, 20111tornado 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.