Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2011
6 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20112 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 10, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pine | 5 hr |
| May 30, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Rock | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Clay and 25 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 43 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Cass County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Morrison County3
- Stearns County3
- Todd County3
- Meeker County3
- Aitkin County2
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pine County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Becker County2
- Big Stone County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
44 more counties
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Red Lake County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Traverse County2
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Carlton County1
- Kanabec County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Houston County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Winona County1
- Beltrami County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Itasca County1
- Jackson County1
- Kittson County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Marshall County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pennington 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. Rebuilt daily.