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Fire Weather Watches in Minnesota, 2020
17 fire weather watches in 2020. 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 fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 17
- Busiest month
- April7 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20205 fire weather watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:54 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:04 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:17 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 12 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FGF | Grant | 12 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:09 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas and 18 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:14 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 10 hr |
| May 1, 1:31 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 14 hr |
| May 1, 2:33 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 10 more | 14 hr |
| May 1, 2:42 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 7 more | 13 hr |
| May 1, 2:52 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine and 1 more | 14 hr |
| May 17, 5:31 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Cook, Itasca, Lake, Saint Louis | 10 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:24 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Brown, Martin, Redwood, Watonwan, Yellow Medicine | 14 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Nov 5, 2:55 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Stevens and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Nov 5, 3:31 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:12 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County4
- Chippewa County4
- Redwood County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Watonwan County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Jackson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Lyon County4
- Murray County4
- Nobles County4
- Pipestone County4
- Rock County4
- Benton County3
- Douglas County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Martin County3
- Meeker County3
- Pope County3
- Renville County3
- Sherburne County3
- Stearns County3
- Todd County3
- Wright County3
- Aitkin County3
- Itasca County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Carver County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- McLeod County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Nicollet County2
34 more counties
- Sibley County2
- Carlton County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Pine County2
- Grant County2
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.