Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 1998
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 15, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carlton, Fillmore, Houston, Lake, Saint Louis, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 45 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock | 7 hr |
| May 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 30 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Faribault County4
- Jackson County4
- Martin County4
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Carver County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Dakota County3
- Dodge County3
- Freeborn County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Le Sueur County3
- McLeod County3
- Murray County3
- Nicollet County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Rice County3
- Rock County3
- Scott County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Waseca County3
- Watonwan County3
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Fillmore County2
- Winona County2
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Meeker County2
25 more counties
- Ramsey County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Clay County1
- Kittson County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Carlton County1
- Houston County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Pope County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Traverse County1
- Kanabec 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.