Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, September 2018
3 tornado watches in September 2018. 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 September 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- September 20, 20182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Faribault and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County2
- Faribault County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Rice County2
- Steele County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Winona County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Hennepin County1
- Jackson County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Martin County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Rock County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Washington 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.