Alert archive / Minnesota / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2018
5 flood watches in 2018. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- October4 flood watches
- Busiest day
- October 7, 20182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:27 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 32 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:21 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 60 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Rock | 54 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:13 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 56 hr |
| Oct 8, 9:32 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 51 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Saint Louis County2
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Rock 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.