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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2017
11 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Jackson and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chisago, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Wabasha, Washington and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carver, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, McLeod, Meeker, Renville and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 5 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sibley County5
- Brown County4
- Goodhue County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Le Sueur County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Nicollet County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Scott County4
- Wright County4
- Benton County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Carver County3
- Chisago County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Dakota County3
- Faribault County3
- Fillmore County3
- Freeborn County3
- Houston County3
- Jackson County3
- Martin County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Rice County3
- Sherburne County3
- Stearns County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Waseca County3
- Washington County3
- Watonwan County3
- Winona County3
- Clay County3
- Marshall County3
- Norman County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
35 more counties
- Red Lake County3
- Wilkin County3
- Anoka County2
- Dodge County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Ramsey County2
- Todd County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Becker County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wadena County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Chippewa County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Kittson County2
- Douglas County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Grant County1
- Roseau 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.