Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, August 2020
1 tornado watches in August 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- August 14, 20201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- 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
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.