Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, 2026
5 tornado watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 3, 20261 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 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Griggs, Ransom, Richland and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 12 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier and 32 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Pembina, Steele, Traill, Walsh | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County3
- Dickey County3
- Steele County3
- Traill County3
- Grant County3
- Mercer County3
- Morton County3
- Oliver County3
- Sioux County3
- Barnes County2
- Griggs County2
- Ransom County2
- Richland County2
- Sargent County2
- Adams County2
- Bottineau County2
- Burke County2
- Burleigh County2
- Divide County2
- Dunn County2
- Emmons County2
- Foster County2
- Hettinger County2
- Kidder County2
- LaMoure County2
- Logan County2
- McHenry County2
- McIntosh County2
- McKenzie County2
- McLean County2
- Mountrail County2
- Pierce County2
- Rolette County2
- Sheridan County2
- Stark County2
- Stutsman County2
- Wells County2
- Williams County2
- Grand Forks County2
- Pembina County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.