Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2016
10 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
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- August 10, 20164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County6
- Wilkin County6
- Big Stone County5
- Traverse County5
- Otter Tail County5
- Mahnomen County4
- Norman County4
- Pennington County4
- Polk County4
- Red Lake County4
- Becker County4
- Douglas County4
- Grant County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Pope County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Todd County4
- Wadena County4
- Cass County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Marshall County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Chippewa County2
- Aitkin County2
- Benton County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Pine County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Kittson County1
- Roseau County1
- Beltrami County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
37 more counties
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Carlton County1
- Carver County1
- Hennepin County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Ramsey County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Winona County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock 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.