Alert archive / Minnesota

Storm Watches in Minnesota

13 storm watches since 1986. 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 storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Storm Watches
13
Busiest year
20233 storm watches
Average year
2over 8 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

The latest storm watches

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 10:28 AM CDTStorm WatchDLH4 hr
Feb 25, 11:57 AM CSTStorm WatchDLH22 hr
Feb 16, 2:30 AM CSTStorm WatchDLH23 hr

Nearby

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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.