Excessive Heat Watches in Minnesota
38 excessive heat watches since 1986. 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 38
- Busiest year
- 20166 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 3over 13 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hennepin County21
- Ramsey County21
- Anoka County17
- Carver County17
- Dakota County17
- Scott County17
- Washington County17
- Blue Earth County12
- Brown County12
- Le Sueur County12
- Nicollet County12
- Sibley County12
- Watonwan County12
- McLeod County11
- Redwood County11
- Renville County11
- Wright County11
- Martin County10
- Meeker County10
- Rice County10
- Sherburne County10
- Yellow Medicine County10
- Chippewa County9
- Faribault County9
- Freeborn County9
- Kandiyohi County9
- Lac qui Parle County9
- Steele County9
- Waseca County9
- Goodhue County8
- Stearns County8
- Stevens County8
- Swift County8
- Pope County7
- Benton County6
- Chisago County5
- Isanti County5
- Cottonwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Lyon County5
47 more counties
- Murray County5
- Nobles County5
- Rock County5
- Clay County4
- Douglas County4
- Grant County4
- Norman County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Polk County4
- Wilkin County4
- Lincoln County4
- Pipestone County4
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Houston County3
- Kanabec County3
- Marshall County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Pine County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Aitkin County2
- Becker County2
- Carlton County2
- Cass County2
- Clearwater County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kittson County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Morrison County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Todd County2
- Wadena County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Beltrami County1
- Cook County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
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.