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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2014
9 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- June7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 16, 20142 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 8, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Carver and 26 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County6
- Jackson County6
- Murray County6
- Nobles County6
- Pipestone County6
- Rock County6
- Martin County5
- Watonwan County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Lincoln County4
- Lyon County4
- McLeod County4
- Redwood County4
- Waseca County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Meeker County3
- Nicollet County3
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Ramsey County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Swift County2
- Goodhue County1
- Rice County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
30 more counties
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Big Stone County1
- Stevens County1
- Traverse County1
- Aitkin County1
- Beltrami County1
- Benton County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Chisago County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Isanti County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Pine County1
- Roseau County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.