Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2008
3 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20081 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 6, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver and 44 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Winona County2
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Aitkin County1
- Anoka County1
- Becker County1
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Carver County1
- Cass County1
- Chisago County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Hubbard County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Nicollet County1
- Norman 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.