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Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 1997

45 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
45
Busiest month
July18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 25, 19976 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFSargent36 min
Jun 19, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBottineau58 min
Jun 22, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn50 min
Jun 27, 10:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNelson25 min
Jun 28, 12:08 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks, Steele32 min
Jun 28, 8:17 AM CDTTornado WarningBISLaMoure28 min
Jun 28, 10:07 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBottineau, McHenry53 min
Jun 28, 11:17 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry28 min
Jun 28, 11:46 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry44 min
Jul 10, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMercer34 min
Jul 10, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBISWard30 min
Jul 10, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry33 min
Jul 11, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBottineau49 min
Jul 13, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNelson36 min
Jul 13, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNelson28 min
Jul 13, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRamsey39 min
Jul 19, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcIntosh34 min
Jul 23, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningBISRenville39 min
Jul 23, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningBISRenville, Ward42 min
Jul 24, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningBISPierce65 min
Jul 25, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBISRenville, Ward51 min
Jul 25, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBottineau63 min
Jul 25, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry, Ward51 min
Jul 25, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWalsh33 min
Jul 25, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWalsh30 min
Jul 26, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass28 min
Jul 26, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass26 min
Aug 2, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFWalsh26 min
Aug 2, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks, Nelson52 min
Aug 2, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks38 min
Aug 5, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningBISSheridan41 min
Aug 5, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBurleigh, McLean33 min
Aug 5, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMorton33 min
Aug 5, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass29 min
Aug 5, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman45 min
Aug 5, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass42 min
Aug 5, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRansom, Richland34 min
Aug 27, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningBISWilliams27 min
Aug 31, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman39 min
Aug 31, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman35 min
Aug 31, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman32 min
Aug 31, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman17 min
Aug 31, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman44 min
Aug 31, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBISStutsman33 min
Aug 31, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBarnes30 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 25, 19976tornado warnings
  2. August 5, 19974tornado warnings
  3. August 31, 19974tornado warnings
  4. June 28, 19973tornado warnings
  5. June 29, 19973tornado warnings
  6. July 11, 19973tornado warnings
  7. July 14, 19973tornado warnings
  8. August 3, 19973tornado warnings
  9. August 6, 19973tornado warnings
  10. September 1, 19973tornado warnings
  11. July 24, 19972tornado warnings
  12. July 26, 19972tornado warnings

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.