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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2015
8 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- August 22, 20152 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 10, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 12, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown and 54 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 20 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County5
- Pipestone County5
- Rock County5
- Cottonwood County4
- Jackson County4
- Lyon County4
- Murray County4
- Nobles County4
- Big Stone County3
- Chippewa County3
- Douglas County3
- Grant County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Pope County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Sherburne County3
- Stearns County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Todd County3
- Wright County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kittson County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
42 more counties
- Roseau County2
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Carver County2
- Cass County2
- Chisago County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Martin County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pine County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Traverse County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Watonwan County2
- Dodge County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Carlton County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Saint Louis 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.