Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, July 2016
16 severe thunderstorm watches in July 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 July 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- July 11, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, McLeod and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Pine | 5 hr |
| Jul 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 8 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mahnomen County5
- Norman County5
- Traverse County5
- Jackson County5
- Nobles County5
- Becker County4
- Clay County4
- Grant County4
- Marshall County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Pennington County4
- Polk County4
- Red Lake County4
- Wadena County4
- Wilkin County4
- Pipestone County4
- Rock County4
- Faribault County4
- Martin County4
- Big Stone County4
- Todd County4
- Beltrami County3
- Clearwater County3
- Hubbard County3
- Kittson County3
- Roseau County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Carver County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Waseca County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
47 more counties
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Swift County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Pine County3
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Freeborn County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Ramsey County2
- Steele County2
- Washington County2
- Douglas County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Aitkin County2
- Benton County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Brown County2
- Nicollet County2
- Redwood County2
- Watonwan County2
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Sherburne County1
- Wright County1
- Carlton County1
- Cook County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis 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.