Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2020
11 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- August 14, 20203 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 7, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton and 31 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Crow Wing and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 28 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Becker County5
- Clearwater County5
- Hubbard County5
- Mahnomen County5
- Norman County5
- Wadena County5
- Clay County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Grant County4
- Hennepin County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Wilkin County4
- Lincoln County4
- Murray County4
- Beltrami County4
- Pennington County4
- Polk County4
- Red Lake County4
- Aitkin County3
- Anoka County3
- Cass County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Meeker County3
- Ramsey County3
- Swift County3
- Washington County3
- Wright County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Marshall County3
- Roseau County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Lyon County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Rice County3
42 more counties
- Scott County3
- Big Stone County2
- Carlton County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pine County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Traverse County2
- Kittson County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Goodhue County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Benton County1
- Douglas County1
- Morrison County1
- Sherburne County1
- Todd County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Dodge County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha 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.