Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2001

7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2001. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2001. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
7
Busiest day
May 10, 20012 severe thunderstorm 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more6 hr
May 9, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBecker, Clay, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 5 more4 hr
May 9, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAitkin, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti and 6 more6 hr
May 9, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHouston5 hr
May 15, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 8 more6 hr
May 15, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 17 more6 hr
May 31, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCKittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more6 hr

By county

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

7 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.