Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2008
8 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- July6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 11, 20082 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 24, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn, Emmons, Foster, Grant and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Griggs, Ransom, Richland, Sargent and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Pembina, Richland, Steele, Traill and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Kidder, LaMoure and 9 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County5
- Steele County5
- Traill County5
- Dickey County4
- LaMoure County4
- Logan County4
- McIntosh County4
- Stutsman County4
- Grand Forks County4
- Pembina County4
- Richland County4
- Walsh County4
- Burleigh County3
- Emmons County3
- Foster County3
- Grant County3
- Kidder County3
- McLean County3
- Mercer County3
- Morton County3
- Oliver County3
- Sheridan County3
- Sioux County3
- Barnes County3
- Cavalier County3
- Griggs County3
- Nelson County3
- Ramsey County3
- Ransom County3
- Sargent County3
- Dunn County2
- Hettinger County2
- Stark County2
- Wells County2
- Benson County1
- Eddy County1
- Adams County1
- Bottineau County1
- Burke County1
- Divide 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.