Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2016
5 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- June2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 14, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kandiyohi County4
- Meeker County4
- Stearns County4
- Wright County4
- Benton County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Sherburne County3
- Big Stone County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- McLeod County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Morrison County2
- Todd County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Jackson County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
28 more counties
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Cook County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wilkin 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.