Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 1997
3 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 2, 19971 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Stevens, Traverse and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Stevens County2
- Traverse County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Goodhue County1
- Grant County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Swift County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
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.