Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2021
2 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest month
- May1 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20211 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 23, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 7 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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.