Alert archive / Minnesota / 1998
Weather alerts in Minnesota, March 1998
41 weather alerts in March 1998, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 37
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 29, 199834 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Sibley | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Rock | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Scott | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Winona | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 35 min |
| Mar 29, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray, Nobles, Rock | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Sherburne | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 37 min |
| Mar 29, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Sibley | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Olmsted | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Dodge | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 4:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Brown, Watonwan | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ARX | Wabasha | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 59 min |
| Mar 29, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Rice | 57 min |
| Mar 29, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Waseca | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 25 |
| Tornado Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Freeborn County5
- Dakota County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Nicollet County4
- Wabasha County4
- Winona County4
- Scott County4
- Steele County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Murray County3
- Olmsted County3
- Rock County3
- Wright County3
- Carver County3
- Anoka County3
- Brown County2
- Faribault County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Nobles County2
- Rice County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Sibley County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Hennepin County2
- Ramsey County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Lincoln County1
- Fillmore County1
- Jackson County1
- Martin County1
- Pipestone County1
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.