Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2022
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, May 2022
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 12, 20223 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 9, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Crow Wing and 22 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Pine | 4 hr |
| May 12, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 35 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, Dodge, Fillmore, Lake, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pine County6
- Aitkin County5
- Chisago County5
- Crow Wing County5
- Washington County5
- Anoka County4
- Carver County4
- Isanti County4
- McLeod County4
- Ramsey County4
- Scott County4
- Wright County4
- Carlton County4
- Cass County4
- Benton County3
- Hennepin County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Renville County3
- Sherburne County3
- Sibley County3
- Todd County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Jackson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Douglas County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Meeker County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Itasca County2
- Lake County2
45 more counties
- Saint Louis County2
- Dakota County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Dodge County2
- Faribault County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Martin County2
- Mower County2
- Nicollet County2
- Olmsted County2
- Redwood County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Rice County1
- Steele County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Roseau County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Traverse County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cook County1
- Fillmore County1
- Winona 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.