Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2011
19 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 19
- Busiest month
- July13 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 12, 20112 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, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux | 6 hr |
| May 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Traill | 7 hr |
| May 30, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Ransom, Richland, Traill | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Foster, Griggs, Ransom, Richland and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Slope | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Eddy, Griggs, Ransom, Richland and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Emmons, Golden Valley and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Griggs, Kidder, LaMoure and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Divide and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 8 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 5 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 15 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Emmons County9
- Ransom County9
- Logan County9
- McIntosh County9
- Sioux County8
- Cass County8
- Richland County8
- Dickey County8
- LaMoure County8
- Burleigh County7
- Grant County7
- Morton County7
- Sargent County7
- Adams County7
- Bowman County7
- Slope County7
- Kidder County7
- Traill County6
- Hettinger County6
- Oliver County6
- Stutsman County6
- Barnes County6
- Billings County5
- Golden Valley County5
- Mercer County5
- Stark County5
- Griggs County5
- Steele County5
- Dunn County4
- Foster County4
- McLean County4
- Sheridan County4
- Ward County4
- Grand Forks County3
- Burke County3
- Divide County3
- McHenry County3
- McKenzie County3
- Mountrail County3
- Pierce 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. Rebuilt daily.