Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2006
15 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- August 23, 20063 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 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 7 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wilkin County7
- Grant County6
- Otter Tail County6
- Becker County5
- Clay County5
- Clearwater County5
- Mahnomen County5
- Hubbard County4
- Norman County4
- Wadena County4
- Douglas County4
- Pope County4
- Stearns County4
- Stevens County4
- Todd County4
- Big Stone County4
- Traverse County4
- Rock County3
- Beltrami County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Benton County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Meeker County3
- Renville County3
- Swift County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Anoka County3
- Carver County3
- Chisago County3
- Dakota County3
- Hennepin County3
- Isanti County3
- Ramsey County3
- Scott County3
38 more counties
- Washington County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Goodhue County3
- Houston County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Rice County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Waseca County3
- Winona County3
- Jackson County2
- Nobles County2
- Kittson County2
- Marshall County2
- Roseau County2
- Kanabec County2
- McLeod County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Wright County2
- Brown County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Nicollet County2
- Redwood County2
- Cottonwood County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lincoln County1
- Pipestone 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.