Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2004
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20042 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 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Isanti, Kanabec and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Murray County7
- Nobles County7
- Pipestone County7
- Brown County6
- Cottonwood County6
- Dodge County6
- Freeborn County6
- Martin County6
- Rock County6
- Steele County6
- Watonwan County6
- Lincoln County6
- Lyon County6
- Blue Earth County5
- Faribault County5
- Goodhue County5
- Jackson County5
- Mower County5
- Olmsted County5
- Wabasha County5
- Waseca County5
- Fillmore County5
- Redwood County5
- Le Sueur County4
- Rice County4
- Houston County4
- Winona County4
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- McLeod County3
- Pope County3
- Todd County3
- Nicollet County3
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Douglas County3
- Grant County3
38 more counties
- Norman County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Meeker County2
- Morrison County2
- Stearns County2
- Wright County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Beltrami County2
- Big Stone County2
- Cass County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Stevens County2
- Traverse County2
- Wadena County2
- Polk County2
- Benton County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Pine County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Anoka County1
- Ramsey County1
- Washington County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau 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.