Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2015
7 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
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- August 1, 20151 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, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 9 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Hubbard and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Stearns County3
- Morrison County3
- Big Stone County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Douglas County2
- Faribault County2
- Jackson County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Benton County2
- Sherburne County2
- Todd County2
- Wright County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
35 more counties
- Kittson County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Grant County1
- Wilkin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Waseca County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Wadena County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Ramsey County1
- Scott County1
- Washington County1
- Clay 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.