Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2003
8 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- July5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 22, 20031 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bowman | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina, Steele, Traill and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina, Traill, Walsh | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dickey County3
- Grand Forks County3
- Nelson County3
- Pembina County3
- Richland County3
- Traill County3
- Walsh County3
- Griggs County2
- Ransom County2
- Sargent County2
- Steele County2
- Adams County2
- Bowman County2
- Emmons County2
- LaMoure County2
- Logan County2
- McIntosh County2
- Barnes County1
- Cass County1
- Grant County1
- Hettinger County1
- Sioux County1
- Slope County1
- Burleigh County1
- Kidder County1
- Stutsman 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.