Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2005
13 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- June11 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20052 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Benson, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Mercer, Mountrail and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Benson, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickey, Sargent | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Stark County6
- Eddy County5
- Foster County5
- Kidder County5
- Stutsman County5
- Wells County5
- Adams County5
- Grant County5
- Hettinger County5
- Mercer County5
- Dickey County4
- Richland County4
- Sargent County4
- Barnes County4
- Benson County4
- Cass County4
- Nelson County4
- Ramsey County4
- Bowman County4
- Burleigh County4
- Dunn County4
- Emmons County4
- McLean County4
- Morton County4
- Oliver County4
- Sioux County4
- Billings County4
- Golden Valley County4
- LaMoure County3
- Ransom County3
- Cavalier County3
- Grand Forks County3
- Griggs County3
- Steele County3
- Towner County3
- Traill County3
- Bottineau County3
- Mountrail County3
- Sheridan County3
- Ward County3
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.