Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2018
3 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20181 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Winona County2
- Goodhue County1
- Wabasha County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley 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.