Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, July 1998
6 tornado watches in July 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 July 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- July 18, 19982 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Traverse, Wilkin | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Traverse | 5 hr |
| Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Traverse County4
- Wilkin County4
- Big Stone County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Wadena County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Meeker County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Todd County2
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
31 more counties
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Marshall County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Nicollet County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.