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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2012
7 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- May3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20122 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing, Hubbard and 9 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chippewa County4
- Chisago County4
- Isanti County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Meeker County4
- Sherburne County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Stearns County4
- Todd County4
- Anoka County3
- Brown County3
- Goodhue County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Benton County3
- Big Stone County3
- Douglas County3
- Grant County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Pope County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Traverse County3
- Wadena County3
- Kanabec County3
- Pine County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Carver County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Faribault County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
28 more counties
- Hennepin County2
- Houston County2
- Jackson County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Mower County2
- Murray County2
- Nicollet County2
- Olmsted County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Winona County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wilkin County2
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.