Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2008
5 tornado watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20083 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, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Grant County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wilkin County1
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kandiyohi County1
36 more counties
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Ramsey County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Aitkin County1
- Beltrami County1
- Benton County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Cook County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Kanabec County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena 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.