Weather alerts in Minnesota, May 2002

68 weather alerts in May 2002, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 68
Warnings: 61
Watches: 7
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 8, 200221 alerts

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 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns	45 min
May 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	31 min
May 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	33 min
May 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Hennepin, McLeod	42 min
May 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Wright	60 min
May 5, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	35 min
May 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Kandiyohi, Meeker	48 min
May 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Redwood, Sherburne, Yellow Medicine	43 min
May 5, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 30 more	6 hr
May 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington	56 min
May 5, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	28 min
May 5, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Renville	64 min
May 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	15 min
May 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Rock	30 min
May 5, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	53 min
May 5, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lyon	13 min
May 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Sibley	53 min
May 5, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Ramsey, Washington	29 min
May 5, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	33 min
May 5, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	McLeod	51 min
May 5, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott, Sibley	58 min
May 5, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	39 min
May 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 3 more	5 hr
May 8, 11:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	4 hr
May 8, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone	45 min
May 8, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Redwood	55 min
May 8, 12:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
May 8, 12:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	Brown, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
May 8, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet	45 min
May 8, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Waseca	42 min
May 8, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Scott	36 min
May 8, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Le Sueur	31 min
May 8, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Rice	41 min
May 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Dakota, Goodhue, Rice	48 min
May 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	47 min
May 8, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	38 min
May 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Goodhue	29 min
May 8, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Goodhue	36 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge, Mower	60 min
May 8, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver	30 min
May 8, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	58 min
May 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Olmsted	46 min
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Fillmore, Houston, Wabasha, Winona	5 hr
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona	60 min
May 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	33 min
May 12, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	50 min
May 22, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Clay, Norman, Otter Tail, Wilkin	6 hr
May 22, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	37 min
May 22, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	32 min
May 22, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	43 min
May 22, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Hubbard	23 min
May 22, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Itasca, Saint Louis	57 min
May 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Winona	6 hr
May 26, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Wabasha	72 min
May 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Rock	42 min
May 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	38 min
May 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Steele	48 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	Steele	17 min
May 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Dodge	42 min
May 27, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	Mower	59 min
May 28, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Watonwan	25 min
May 28, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Carver, Sibley	47 min
May 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Blue Earth, Waseca	45 min
May 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn and 15 more	5 hr
May 28, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman	25 min
May 28, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	40 min
May 30, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine	6 hr
May 30, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		3 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	55
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Tornado Watch	2
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	3
Marine
Special Marine Warning	1

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Rebuilt daily.