Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings / 2012

Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, May 2012

20 tornado warnings 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
20
Busiest day
May 4, 20128 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPope, Stearns44 min
May 1, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSherburne, Stearns, Wright38 min
May 1, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXStearns36 min
May 1, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXSherburne37 min
May 1, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne, Stearns46 min
May 1, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBenton, Sherburne35 min
May 2, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Nicollet, Watonwan40 min
May 2, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXRice, Steele, Waseca28 min
May 2, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningARXWabasha27 min
May 2, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle44 min
May 2, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa, Lac qui Parle35 min
May 2, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXChippewa45 min
May 4, 2:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson, Nobles24 min
May 4, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson, Nobles27 min
May 4, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson36 min
May 4, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJackson32 min
May 4, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin35 min
May 4, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXMartin50 min
May 4, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFaribault, Freeborn23 min
May 4, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXFreeborn24 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Rebuilt daily.