Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 1998
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Cass, Cook, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 48 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Kittson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown and 54 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County5
- Hubbard County5
- Itasca County5
- Aitkin County4
- Anoka County4
- Beltrami County4
- Benton County4
- Chisago County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Koochiching County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Morrison County4
- Pine County4
- Sherburne County4
- Wadena County4
- Dodge County4
- Freeborn County4
- Douglas County4
- Grant County4
- Mahnomen County4
- Norman County4
- Carlton County3
- Clearwater County3
- Fillmore County3
- Houston County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Faribault County3
- Hennepin County3
- Le Sueur County3
- McLeod County3
- Martin County3
- Nicollet County3
45 more counties
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Watonwan County3
- Becker County3
- Chippewa County3
- Clay County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Kittson County3
- Marshall County3
- Meeker County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Pope County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Stearns County3
- Swift County3
- Todd County3
- Washington County3
- Wright County3
- Mower County3
- Lake County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Stevens County2
- Wilkin County2
- Goodhue County2
- Ramsey County2
- Olmsted County2
- Cook 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.