High Wind Watches in Minnesota
54 high wind watches since 1986. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 54
- Busiest year
- 20107 high wind watches
- Average year
- 4over 15 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County14
- Clay County14
- Wilkin County14
- Traverse County13
- Norman County13
- Polk County11
- Rock County10
- Kittson County10
- Marshall County10
- Cottonwood County8
- Lyon County8
- Murray County8
- Nobles County8
- Pipestone County8
- Grant County7
- Otter Tail County7
- Jackson County7
- Lincoln County7
- Blue Earth County6
- Faribault County6
- Martin County6
- Brown County5
- Freeborn County5
- Mower County5
- Redwood County5
- Steele County5
- Waseca County5
- Watonwan County5
- Becker County5
- Pennington County5
- Red Lake County5
- Roseau County5
- Chippewa County4
- Douglas County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Nicollet County4
- Pope County4
- Renville County4
- Stevens County4
40 more counties
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Dodge County4
- Fillmore County4
- Houston County4
- Mahnomen County4
- Olmsted County4
- Winona County4
- Cook County3
- Lake County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Anoka County3
- Benton County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Le Sueur County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Morrison County3
- Ramsey County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Sherburne County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Todd County3
- Wabasha County3
- Washington County3
- Wright County3
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Carlton County1
- Clearwater County1
- Pine County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 12:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 12 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:47 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:06 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 25, 7:41 AM CST | High Wind Watch | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 27 hr |
Nearby
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.