Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, April 2002
3 severe thunderstorm watches in April 2002. 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- April 16, 20021 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown and 48 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown and 46 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 50 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Faribault County3
- McLeod County3
- Martin County3
- Meeker County3
- Nicollet County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Beltrami County2
- Big Stone County2
- Cass County2
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Jackson County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Morrison County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Rock County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Todd County2
- Traverse County2
- Wadena County2
46 more counties
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Houston County2
- Isanti County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Steele County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Winona County2
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wilkin County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis 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.