Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2018
7 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20182 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 5, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 8 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Martin County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Carlton County2
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Pine County2
- Nobles County1
- Rock County1
- Becker County1
- Cass County1
- Hubbard County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Goodhue County1
25 more counties
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Wabasha County1
- Washington County1
- Winona County1
- Wright County1
- Aitkin 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.