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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2013
10 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20132 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 41 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine | 5 hr |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 9 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carver, Cass and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 10 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chippewa County4
- Fillmore County4
- Houston County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Pope County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Carver County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lyon County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Mower County3
- Murray County3
- Olmsted County3
- Renville County3
- Sherburne County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Wright County3
- Pine County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Anoka County2
- Brown County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Ramsey County2
- Redwood County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
32 more counties
- Watonwan County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Lincoln County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Benton County2
- Aitkin County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wilkin County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Rice County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Morrison County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Carlton County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.