Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2025
5 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 21, 20251 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 20, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Grand Forks, LaMoure, Ransom and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Kidder, LaMoure and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 14, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dickey and 25 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dickey County5
- LaMoure County5
- Barnes County4
- Burleigh County4
- Emmons County4
- Kidder County4
- Logan County4
- McIntosh County4
- Stutsman County4
- Benson County3
- Cavalier County3
- Eddy County3
- Foster County3
- Griggs County3
- McHenry County3
- McLean County3
- Pierce County3
- Ramsey County3
- Ransom County3
- Sargent County3
- Sheridan County3
- Towner County3
- Wells County3
- Grant County3
- Morton County3
- Oliver County3
- Sioux County3
- Cass County2
- Grand Forks County2
- Nelson County2
- Richland County2
- Steele County2
- Traill County2
- Bottineau County2
- Mercer County2
- Renville County2
- Rolette County2
- Ward County2
- Pembina County1
- Walsh 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.