Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2020
3 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- June2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 7, 20201 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 7, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant and 18 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nicollet County2
- Sibley County2
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Winona County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Morrison County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne 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.