Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2021
30 severe thunderstorm watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 30
- Busiest month
- August9 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20214 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By month
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 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Chisago, Fillmore, Goodhue and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Rock | 7 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Isanti, Kandiyohi and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 9, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse, Wilkin | 7 hr |
| Oct 9, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Cass, Chippewa, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 10, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fillmore County9
- Goodhue County9
- Houston County9
- Olmsted County9
- Wabasha County9
- Winona County9
- Big Stone County9
- Traverse County9
- Dodge County8
- Mower County8
- Wilkin County8
- Rice County8
- Grant County7
- Otter Tail County7
- Freeborn County7
- Steele County7
- Chippewa County7
- Kandiyohi County7
- Meeker County7
- Pope County7
- Stearns County7
- Stevens County7
- Renville County7
- Polk County6
- Norman County6
- Brown County6
- Nicollet County6
- Waseca County6
- Douglas County6
- Lac qui Parle County6
- Morrison County6
- Swift County6
- Todd County6
- Yellow Medicine County6
- Becker County5
- Clay County5
- Wadena County5
- Blue Earth County5
- Faribault County5
- Le Sueur County5
47 more counties
- Martin County5
- Sibley County5
- Redwood County5
- Marshall County4
- Pennington County4
- Red Lake County4
- Mahnomen County4
- Dakota County4
- Watonwan County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Cass County4
- Hubbard County4
- Itasca County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Washington County4
- McLeod County4
- Murray County4
- Kittson County3
- Scott County3
- Jackson County3
- Aitkin County3
- Beltrami County3
- Carlton County3
- Clearwater County3
- Koochiching County3
- Lake County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Anoka County3
- Benton County3
- Sherburne County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Ramsey County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Pipestone County3
- Roseau County2
- Cook County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Pine County2
- Chisago County2
- Nobles County2
- Rock County2
- Carver County2
- Wright County2
- Hennepin County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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. Rebuilt daily.