Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, June 1998
9 tornado watches in June 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 June 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- June 27, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Houston County4
- Winona County4
- Dodge County4
- Fillmore County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Jackson County3
- Martin County3
- Nobles County3
- Rock County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Pipestone County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Le Sueur County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Nicollet County3
- Olmsted County3
- Ramsey County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Waseca County3
- Washington County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Mower County2
- Anoka County2
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.