Alert archive / Minnesota / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Minnesota, 2025
14 flood watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- July6 flood watches
- Busiest day
- August 17, 20253 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 20, 2:06 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Lake and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:50 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 24 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 25, 11:03 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:10 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 16 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:12 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca | 8 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:58 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:17 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:38 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 19 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:36 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more | 54 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:54 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:52 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Lake, Pine and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:17 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 20 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:45 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray | 15 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:00 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 19 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Aitkin County5
- Carlton County5
- Cook County5
- Lake County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Itasca County4
- Cass County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Winona County3
- Pine County3
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pope County2
- Ramsey County2
- Renville County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Stearns County2
38 more counties
- Swift County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Houston County2
- Wabasha County2
- Martin County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Brown County1
- Douglas County1
- Kanabec County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Redwood County1
- Stevens County1
- Todd County1
- Watonwan County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.