Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2002
17 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- August 12, 20023 severe thunderstorm watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Martin and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Traverse | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard and 6 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County6
- Wilkin County6
- Norman County5
- Polk County5
- Traverse County5
- Olmsted County4
- Becker County4
- Clearwater County4
- Kittson County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Red Lake County4
- Pope County4
- Crow Wing County3
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Goodhue County3
- Mower County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Marshall County3
- Pennington County3
- Roseau County3
- Big Stone County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Lincoln County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Wadena County3
- Douglas County3
- Grant County3
- Anoka County3
- Chisago County3
- Hennepin County3
- Aitkin County2
- Cass County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Houston County2
- Beltrami County2
45 more counties
- Hubbard County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Benton County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Isanti County2
- Jackson County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lyon County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Renville County2
- Rock County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Stearns County2
- Wright County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Martin County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Carlton County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Redwood County1
- Watonwan County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Morrison County1
- Pine County1
- Todd 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.