Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2015
2 tornado watches in May 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20151 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, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.