Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2002
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20021 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Norman, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Winona | 6 hr |
| May 28, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn and 15 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fillmore County4
- Olmsted County4
- Winona County4
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Mower County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Houston County3
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Freeborn County2
- Hennepin County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Faribault County1
- Jackson County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Norman County1
3 more counties
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.