Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2005
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20052 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, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock, Stevens and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Douglas and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail, Polk and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 13 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Becker County4
- Clay County4
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Norman County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Big Stone County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Stevens County2
- Traverse County2
- Brown County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Douglas County2
- Jackson County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Martin County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Watonwan County2
- Marshall County2
- Pennington County2
- Roseau County2
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Carver County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
18 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.