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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, 2022
12 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- May7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20222 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 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago and 32 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lincoln and 9 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 11:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Winona | 10 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County8
- Waseca County8
- Faribault County7
- Steele County7
- Watonwan County7
- Freeborn County6
- Martin County6
- Le Sueur County6
- Nicollet County6
- Rice County6
- Sibley County6
- Brown County6
- Fillmore County5
- Chippewa County5
- Pope County5
- Swift County5
- Anoka County5
- Benton County5
- Carver County5
- Chisago County5
- Dakota County5
- Goodhue County5
- Hennepin County5
- Isanti County5
- McLeod County5
- Meeker County5
- Ramsey County5
- Scott County5
- Sherburne County5
- Stearns County5
- Washington County5
- Wright County5
- Redwood County5
- Dodge County4
- Mower County4
- Olmsted County4
- Douglas County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Stevens County4
- Todd County4
39 more counties
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Morrison County4
- Winona County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Renville County4
- Becker County3
- Big Stone County3
- Grant County3
- Hubbard County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Traverse County3
- Wadena County3
- Houston County3
- Wabasha County3
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Pine County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Saint Louis 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.