Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 1998
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 19, 19982 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 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Yellow Medicine | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wadena County3
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Aitkin County2
- Benton County2
- Carlton County2
- Douglas County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Pine County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Swift County2
- Todd County2
- Chippewa County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Pipestone County2
- Mower County2
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Itasca County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Traverse County1
- Wilkin County1
- Anoka County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti County1
22 more counties
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lake County1
- Meeker County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stevens County1
- Wright County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Jackson County1
- Martin County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Rock County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
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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.