Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2019
7 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20193 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 4, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Grant, Jackson and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carver County3
- McLeod County3
- Scott County3
- Jackson County3
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Meeker County2
- Pope County2
- Ramsey County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Washington County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Rice County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Clay County1
- Norman County1
- Polk County1
- Wilkin County1
- Aitkin County1
34 more counties
- Benton County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Wright County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Chippewa County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.