Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2005
2 tornado watches in May 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20052 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 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson, Lac qui Parle and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Grant County1
- Jackson County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Rock County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Traverse County1
- Wilkin County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau 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.