Alert archive / Minnesota / Flash Flood Watches / 2012
Flash Flood Watches in Minnesota, May 2012
9 flash flood watches in May 2012. 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20123 flash flood 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 5, 1:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn and 21 more | 15 hr |
| May 5, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 8 hr |
| May 5, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 13 hr |
| May 5, 9:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 2 hr |
| May 23, 3:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 22 more | 34 hr |
| May 23, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles | 29 hr |
| May 27, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 22 more | 26 hr |
| May 27, 3:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake and 2 more | 26 hr |
| May 27, 3:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Carver County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Le Sueur County3
- McLeod County3
- Martin County3
- Meeker County3
- Nicollet County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Scott County3
- Sibley County3
- Stearns County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Lyon County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Ramsey County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Chippewa County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Pope County1
20 more counties
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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.