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Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2018

40 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
40
Busiest month
June27 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 1, 201810 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 31, 2:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISDunn30 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn, Mercer32 min
May 31, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMercer, Oliver28 min
May 31, 5:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISMorton, Stark22 min
May 31, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn, Mercer, Stark34 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie30 min
Jun 1, 5:33 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISDunn, McKenzie27 min
Jun 1, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie, Mountrail23 min
Jun 1, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMercer, Morton, Oliver36 min
Jun 1, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn, McLean, Mountrail34 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBISGrant, Morton33 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn, McLean, Mercer28 min
Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie, Mountrail31 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry, McLean, Ward13 min
Jun 1, 6:30 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISMercer30 min
Jun 8, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBarnes, Cass36 min
Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBarnes, Cass39 min
Jun 8, 4:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFCass46 min
Jun 8, 4:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFGrand Forks, Nelson, Walsh51 min
Jun 8, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass, Richland51 min
Jun 8, 5:13 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFGrand Forks47 min
Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFCass, Richland38 min
Jun 8, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRichland46 min
Jun 14, 9:17 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFCavalier, Towner43 min
Jun 14, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCavalier, Ramsey, Towner49 min
Jun 26, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMorton28 min
Jun 28, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn35 min
Jun 28, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn31 min
Jun 29, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WarningBISKidder, Stutsman25 min
Jun 29, 2:27 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFBenson, Ramsey14 min
Jun 29, 2:29 AM CDTTornado WarningBISLaMoure, Logan, Stutsman31 min
Jun 29, 3:40 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks, Nelson, Steele35 min
Jul 4, 2:26 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFBenson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey49 min
Jul 4, 3:09 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFCavalier, Pembina, Ramsey, Walsh36 min
Jul 8, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDickey35 min
Jul 8, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRansom, Richland, Sargent38 min
Jul 8, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFSargent49 min
Jul 14, 4:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISDunn, Mercer36 min
Jul 14, 4:29 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISMercer31 min
Sep 3, 7:22 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISBowman23 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. June 1, 201810tornado warnings
  2. June 8, 20188tornado warnings
  3. June 29, 20186tornado warnings
  4. May 31, 20185tornado warnings
  5. July 8, 20183tornado warnings
  6. June 15, 20182tornado warnings
  7. July 4, 20182tornado warnings
  8. July 14, 20182tornado warnings
  9. June 27, 20181tornado warnings
  10. September 4, 20181tornado 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.