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Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2021

24 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
24
Busiest month
June11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 10, 20216 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 19, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningBISKidder23 min
Jun 7, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningBISLaMoure, Stutsman32 min
Jun 7, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningBISLaMoure, Stutsman25 min
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie20 min
Jun 10, 6:06 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBISMcKenzie24 min
Jun 10, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie29 min
Jun 10, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie30 min
Jun 10, 6:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatBISMcKenzie25 min
Jun 10, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie25 min
Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie26 min
Jun 10, 8:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatBISMcKenzie33 min
Jun 10, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningBISWilliams26 min
Aug 9, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCavalier, Ramsey, Towner34 min
Aug 9, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGriggs, Nelson32 min
Aug 9, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks, Nelson, Steele40 min
Aug 9, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks48 min
Aug 20, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBarnes, Cass47 min
Aug 20, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBarnes, Griggs, Steele49 min
Aug 20, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass, Traill47 min
Aug 22, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFBenson35 min
Aug 22, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGriggs, Steele23 min
Aug 22, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrand Forks, Nelson18 min
Oct 9, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRichland, Sargent25 min
Oct 13, 4:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGFRansom, Sargent17 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 10, 20216tornado warnings
  2. August 10, 20214tornado warnings
  3. June 11, 20213tornado warnings
  4. August 20, 20213tornado warnings
  5. June 8, 20212tornado warnings
  6. August 23, 20212tornado warnings
  7. May 19, 20211tornado warnings
  8. August 22, 20211tornado warnings
  9. October 9, 20211tornado warnings
  10. October 13, 20211tornado 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.