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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 1998

25 tornado watches in 1998. 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
25
Busiest month
June9 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 27, 19983 tornado 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 2:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more6 hr
Mar 29, 2:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCHouston, Winona6 hr
Mar 29, 8:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCOlmsted, Wabasha, Winona6 hr
May 14, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 1 more6 hr
May 15, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 28 more6 hr
May 15, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarlton, Fillmore, Houston, Lake, Saint Louis, Wabasha and 1 more6 hr
May 30, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 45 more6 hr
May 30, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFaribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock7 hr
May 30, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 30 more6 hr
Jun 20, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFillmore, Houston, Winona5 hr
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFaribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock6 hr
Jun 24, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 4 more7 hr
Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 23 more6 hr
Jun 26, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens and 2 more6 hr
Jun 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 34 more7 hr
Jun 26, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston6 hr
Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more6 hr
Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more6 hr
Jul 14, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Lac qui Parle, Traverse, Wilkin6 hr
Jul 18, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 9 more6 hr
Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCTraverse5 hr
Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBig Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 16 more6 hr
Jul 20, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 21 more6 hr
Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more5 hr
Aug 22, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 22 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

44 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 27, 19983tornado watches
  2. March 29, 19982tornado watches
  3. May 15, 19982tornado watches
  4. May 31, 19982tornado watches
  5. June 24, 19982tornado watches
  6. July 18, 19982tornado watches
  7. July 20, 19982tornado watches
  8. March 30, 19981tornado watches
  9. May 14, 19981tornado watches
  10. May 30, 19981tornado watches
  11. June 20, 19981tornado watches
  12. June 25, 19981tornado watches

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.