Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2012
14 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20123 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 1, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson | 7 hr |
| May 2, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 5 more | 9 hr |
| May 4, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mower | 3 hr |
| May 5, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| May 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Murray, Nobles | 7 hr |
| May 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 7 hr |
| May 27, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 40 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 14 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County6
- Jackson County6
- Martin County5
- Nobles County5
- Watonwan County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Mower County4
- Murray County4
- Steele County4
- Waseca County4
- Rock County4
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Nicollet County3
- Olmsted County3
- Rice County3
- Wabasha County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Pipestone County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- McLeod County3
- Redwood County3
- Scott County3
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Winona County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Chippewa County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
28 more counties
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Chisago County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pine County2
- Ramsey County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Clay County1
- Norman County1
- Polk County1
- Wilkin County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Douglas County1
- Morrison County1
- Todd County1
- Carlton County1
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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.