Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 2016
2 tornado watches in July 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 July 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- July 5, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Wright County2
- Big Stone County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Morrison County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sibley County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Watonwan County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec 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.