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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2018
10 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- September 20, 20182 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 9, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower, Steele and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Sep 4, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 3, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carlton, Chisago, Goodhue, Pine, Wabasha | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County3
- Faribault County3
- Fillmore County3
- Freeborn County3
- Mower County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Wilkin County3
- Goodhue County3
- Wabasha County3
- Jackson County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Big Stone County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Traverse County2
- Wadena County2
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Chisago County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Hennepin County2
- Pine County2
- Ramsey County2
- Washington County2
- Clay County2
- Houston County2
- Olmsted County2
- Rice County2
- Winona County2
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Pope County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
37 more counties
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Sherburne County1
- Wright County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Cass County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Martin County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Watonwan 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.