Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2020
9 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- June3 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20202 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 26, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis | 10 hr |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Faribault and 12 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 47 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin and 7 more | 35 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 19 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 12 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Dakota County4
- Goodhue County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Rice County4
- Scott County4
- Waseca County4
- Hennepin County3
- Ramsey County3
- Steele County3
- Washington County3
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Isanti County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Brown County2
- Nicollet County2
- Watonwan County2
- Carlton County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Kanabec County1
- Houston County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Wright County1
- Becker 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.