Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2024
3 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- June2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 16, 20241 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 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh and 8 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County2
- Billings County2
- Bowman County2
- Burleigh County2
- Dunn County2
- Golden Valley County2
- Grant County2
- Hettinger County2
- McKenzie County2
- McLean County2
- Mercer County2
- Morton County2
- Oliver County2
- Sheridan County2
- Slope County2
- Stark County2
- Williams County2
- Bottineau County1
- Burke County1
- Divide County1
- McHenry County1
- Mountrail County1
- Renville County1
- Ward County1
- Emmons County1
- Kidder County1
- Logan County1
- McIntosh County1
- Sioux County1
- Stutsman 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.