Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2018
7 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- June5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 1, 20181 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 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn, Emmons and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, McHenry, McKenzie and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benson, Cavalier, Pembina, Ramsey, Towner, Walsh | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland, Sargent | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Benson, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dunn County3
- Logan County3
- McHenry County3
- McIntosh County3
- McKenzie County3
- McLean County3
- Mercer County3
- Mountrail County3
- Oliver County3
- Sheridan County3
- Ward County3
- Williams County3
- Richland County3
- Bottineau County2
- Burke County2
- Burleigh County2
- Divide County2
- Emmons County2
- Grant County2
- Hettinger County2
- Kidder County2
- Morton County2
- Renville County2
- Sioux County2
- Stark County2
- Pierce County2
- Benson County2
- Ramsey County2
- Sargent County2
- Barnes County2
- Dickey County2
- LaMoure County2
- Rolette County1
- Cavalier County1
- Pembina County1
- Towner County1
- Walsh County1
- Adams County1
- Billings County1
- Bowman 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.