Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2025
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, August 2025
4 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 8, 20251 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, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone and 62 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Kandiyohi and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 35 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anoka County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Ramsey County3
- Renville County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Sherburne County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Washington County3
- Wright County3
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wadena County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Jackson County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
39 more counties
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Rock County2
- Steele County2
- Swift County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wilkin County1
- Aitkin County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Chisago County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Isanti County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Stevens County1
- Todd 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.