Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2023
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 11, 20233 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 1, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Mahnomen, Marshall and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Traverse, Wilkin | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Isanti, Kanabec and 3 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wilkin County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Jackson County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Meeker County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Nobles County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Stearns County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pine County2
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Grant County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Chippewa County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
33 more counties
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Houston County1
- Morrison County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Washington County1
- Winona County1
- Wright County1
- Freeborn County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cook County1
- Lake 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.