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Gale Watches in Minnesota, 2025

26 gale 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 gale watches reaches back to 2005.

Gale Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
26
Busiest month
December9 gale watches
Busiest day
January 1, 20251 gale 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 8:31 AM CSTGale WatchDLH31 hr
Jan 11, 1:49 PM CSTGale WatchDLH19 hr
Jan 14, 3:46 PM CSTGale WatchDLH12 hr
Jan 16, 2:53 AM CSTGale WatchDLH16 hr
Feb 4, 9:24 PM CSTGale WatchDLH6 hr
Mar 3, 2:16 AM CSTGale WatchDLH24 hr
Mar 9, 3:08 PM CDTGale WatchDLH12 hr
Mar 14, 4:05 AM CDTGale WatchDLH11 hr
Mar 18, 3:10 AM CDTGale WatchDLH12 hr
Mar 26, 3:34 PM CDTGale WatchDLH20 hr
Mar 31, 2:55 AM CDTGale WatchDLH25 hr
Apr 13, 2:44 AM CDTGale WatchDLH12 hr
May 19, 4:15 AM CDTGale WatchDLH9 hr
Aug 15, 2:22 PM CDTGale WatchDLH36 hr
Oct 3, 1:51 AM CDTGale WatchDLH49 hr
Oct 31, 2:07 PM CDTGale WatchDLH24 hr
Nov 24, 2:46 AM CSTGale WatchDLH26 hr
Dec 2, 9:23 PM CSTGale WatchDLH30 hr
Dec 8, 2:44 AM CSTGale WatchDLH19 hr
Dec 11, 9:44 AM CSTGale WatchDLH17 hr
Dec 15, 3:37 AM CSTGale WatchDLH9 hr
Dec 16, 3:20 PM CSTGale WatchDLH12 hr
Dec 18, 3:33 PM CSTGale WatchDLH23 hr
Dec 22, 7:40 PM CSTGale WatchDLH7 hr
Dec 26, 1:41 PM CSTGale WatchDLH25 hr
Dec 30, 4:00 AM CSTGale WatchDLH10 hr

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.