Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, August 1997
2 tornado watches in August 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 5, 19971 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 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier and 26 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barnes County2
- Benson County2
- Cass County2
- Cavalier County2
- Dickey County2
- Eddy County2
- Foster County2
- Grand Forks County2
- Griggs County2
- Kidder County2
- LaMoure County2
- Logan County2
- McIntosh County2
- Nelson County2
- Pembina County2
- Ramsey County2
- Ransom County2
- Richland County2
- Sargent County2
- Steele County2
- Stutsman County2
- Towner County2
- Traill County2
- Walsh County2
- Wells County2
- Bottineau County1
- Burleigh County1
- Emmons County1
- McHenry County1
- Pierce County1
- Rolette County1
- Sheridan 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.