Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 2011
7 tornado watches in July 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 July 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- July 17, 20112 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 8, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Traverse, Wilkin | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse, Wilkin | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse, Wilkin | 8 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Otter Tail and 6 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County5
- Wilkin County5
- Big Stone County4
- Traverse County4
- Grant County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Clearwater County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Roseau County1
- Hubbard County1
- Wadena County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Pope County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.