Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2016
25 flash flood watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 25
- Busiest month
- September8 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- June 14, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Martin, Steele and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Watonwan | 11 hr |
| Jul 16, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Nicollet and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Fillmore, Mower | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Faribault and 16 more | 24 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 28 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine and 1 more | 35 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 18 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Wabasha | 22 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 15 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 7 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 67 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 19 more | 40 hr |
| Sep 20, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles | 44 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 4 more | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County8
- Faribault County8
- Freeborn County8
- Steele County7
- Waseca County7
- Fillmore County7
- Goodhue County6
- Martin County6
- Watonwan County6
- Houston County6
- Mower County6
- Wabasha County6
- Cottonwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Nobles County5
- Dodge County5
- Olmsted County5
- Winona County5
- Brown County5
- Nicollet County5
- Dakota County5
- Le Sueur County5
- Rice County5
- Chisago County4
- Isanti County4
- Scott County4
- Sibley County4
- Washington County4
- Murray County3
- Anoka County3
- Carver County3
- Hennepin County3
- McLeod County3
- Ramsey County3
- Sherburne County3
- Wright County3
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Benton County2
- Kanabec County2
36 more counties
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Pine County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Meeker County1
- Pope County1
- Renville County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Polk County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Rock 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. Rebuilt daily.