Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2015
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 22, 20152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Rock County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
38 more counties
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Aitkin County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Kittson County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Pine County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin 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.