Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2017
4 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20173 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 15, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 3 hr |
| May 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 16 more | 4 hr |
| May 16, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Houston County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Mower County2
- Nicollet County2
- Olmsted County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Winona County2
- Faribault County1
- Martin County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Nobles County1
- Rock County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- McLeod County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Wright 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.