Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, March 1998
3 tornado watches in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 29, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Winona County3
- Houston County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Jackson County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Rice County1
- Rock County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan 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.