Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2012
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20122 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County2
- Watonwan County2
- Goodhue County2
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Jackson County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rock County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
24 more counties
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Pine County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona 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.