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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2019
9 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- July4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20191 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Saint Louis | 5 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Houston County4
- Freeborn County4
- Steele County4
- Waseca County4
- Blue Earth County3
- Anoka County3
- Carver County3
- Chisago County3
- Dakota County3
- Hennepin County3
- Ramsey County3
- Scott County3
- Sibley County3
- Washington County3
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Olmsted County3
- Rice County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Fillmore County3
- Mower County3
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Jackson County2
- Martin County2
- Nobles County2
- Watonwan County2
- Isanti County2
- McLeod County2
- Sherburne County2
- Wright County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Nicollet County2
- Beltrami County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Murray County1
30 more counties
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Aitkin County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Chippewa County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pine County1
- Pope County1
- Renville County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Brown 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.