Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, April 2012
1 tornado watches in April 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 April 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 37 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Houston County1
- Isanti County1
- Jackson County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Mower County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
3 more counties
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.