Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2009
5 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20092 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 2, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dodge and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Meeker County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Rice County2
- Rock County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Dodge County2
- Mower County2
- Anoka County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Wright 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.