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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2024
6 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20241 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 21, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown and 58 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Martin County3
- Nicollet County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Watonwan County3
- Carlton County3
- Pine County3
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Aitkin County2
- Benton County2
- Chisago County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Brown County2
- Cook County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lake County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Goodhue County1
32 more counties
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Anoka County1
- Becker County1
- Cass County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Hennepin County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Murray County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.