Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2001
3 tornado watches in May 2001. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20012 tornado 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, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Isanti, Itasca and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 25 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Faribault County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Mower County2
- Nicollet County2
- Olmsted County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Watonwan County2
- Winona County2
- Wright County2
- Anoka County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Chisago County1
- Cook County1
- Isanti County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Lake County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Pine County1
Nearby
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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.