Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2021
9 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20214 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County5
- Renville County5
- Traverse County5
- Chippewa County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Meeker County4
- Pope County4
- Redwood County4
- Stearns County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Grant County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Brown County3
- Douglas County3
- McLeod County3
- Morrison County3
- Murray County3
- Nicollet County3
- Sibley County3
- Todd County3
- Clay County2
- Kittson County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Polk County2
- Wadena County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Jackson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
34 more counties
- Watonwan County2
- Carver County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Cass County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Freeborn County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca 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. Rebuilt daily.