Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2017
3 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- June1 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 7, 20171 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 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Traill | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy and 19 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County3
- Grand Forks County3
- Traill County3
- Barnes County2
- Griggs County2
- Nelson County2
- Pembina County2
- Ransom County2
- Richland County2
- Sargent County2
- Steele County2
- Walsh County2
- Benson County1
- Cavalier County1
- Dickey County1
- Eddy County1
- Foster County1
- Kidder County1
- LaMoure County1
- Logan County1
- McIntosh County1
- Ramsey County1
- Stutsman County1
- Towner County1
- Wells 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.