Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2012
4 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20121 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 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland | 6 hr |
| May 22, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 6 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Cavalier, Eddy, McHenry and 10 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Richland County2
- Benson County2
- Bottineau County2
- Burke County2
- Eddy County2
- McHenry County2
- McLean County2
- Mountrail County2
- Pierce County2
- Ramsey County2
- Renville County2
- Rolette County2
- Sheridan County2
- Towner County2
- Ward County2
- Wells County2
- Barnes County1
- Burleigh County1
- Divide County1
- Foster County1
- Griggs County1
- Kidder County1
- Mercer County1
- Morton County1
- Nelson County1
- Oliver County1
- Stutsman County1
- Williams County1
- Dickey County1
- LaMoure County1
- Ransom County1
- Sargent County1
- Cavalier 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.