Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota
271 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 271
- Busiest year
- 200728 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 16over 17 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.
- Fillmore County58
- Blue Earth County56
- Mower County56
- Waseca County56
- Faribault County55
- Olmsted County55
- Freeborn County54
- Le Sueur County54
- Dodge County53
- Steele County53
- Winona County52
- Martin County51
- Wabasha County51
- Houston County51
- Goodhue County50
- Rice County50
- Watonwan County50
- Jackson County48
- Nobles County46
- Nicollet County45
- Dakota County44
- Brown County43
- Scott County41
- Cottonwood County40
- Sibley County39
- Carver County37
- Hennepin County37
- Ramsey County37
- Washington County37
- Rock County36
- Murray County35
- Anoka County33
- Wright County30
- McLeod County30
- Pipestone County30
- Saint Louis County29
- Chisago County27
- Renville County27
- Lyon County26
- Redwood County26
47 more counties
- Isanti County25
- Sherburne County25
- Meeker County25
- Stearns County24
- Carlton County24
- Kandiyohi County23
- Benton County22
- Lincoln County22
- Pine County22
- Kanabec County21
- Mille Lacs County21
- Morrison County19
- Aitkin County19
- Big Stone County19
- Cass County19
- Crow Wing County19
- Traverse County19
- Cook County18
- Lake County18
- Clay County17
- Wilkin County17
- Chippewa County17
- Itasca County17
- Todd County16
- Pope County15
- Stevens County15
- Swift County15
- Yellow Medicine County15
- Marshall County13
- Otter Tail County13
- Lac qui Parle County13
- Becker County12
- Grant County12
- Norman County12
- Polk County12
- Douglas County12
- Kittson County10
- Hubbard County9
- Wadena County9
- Koochiching County8
- Beltrami County8
- Clearwater County7
- Mahnomen County7
- Red Lake County7
- Pennington County6
- Roseau County6
- Lake of the Woods County5
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. Rebuilt daily.