Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2012
12 flash flood watches in 2012. 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- May9 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20123 flash flood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn and 21 more | 15 hr |
| May 5, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 8 hr |
| May 5, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 13 hr |
| May 5, 9:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 2 hr |
| May 23, 3:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 22 more | 34 hr |
| May 23, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 29 hr |
| May 27, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 22 more | 26 hr |
| May 27, 3:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake and 2 more | 26 hr |
| May 27, 3:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more | 45 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota and 24 more | 56 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 17 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carver County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Le Sueur County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Renville County4
- Scott County4
- Sibley County4
- Stearns County4
- Wright County4
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Martin County3
- Nicollet County3
- Redwood County3
- Watonwan County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Anoka County3
- Benton County3
- Chisago County3
- Dakota County3
- Hennepin County3
- Isanti County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Ramsey County3
- Sherburne County3
- Washington County3
- Cook County3
- Lake County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Chippewa County2
- Pope County2
- Rice County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
24 more counties
- Lyon County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Pine County2
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Lincoln County1
- Grant County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Wilkin County1
- Cass County1
- Douglas County1
- Goodhue County1
- Todd County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.