Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2004
5 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20041 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 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman | 5 hr |
| May 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson and 22 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Meeker County2
- Nicollet County2
- Sibley County2
- Watonwan County2
- Big Stone County2
- Chippewa County2
- Grant County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Clay County2
- Norman County2
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
26 more counties
- Winona County1
- Wright County1
- Douglas County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rock County1
- Yellow Medicine 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.