Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2022
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, April 2022
3 tornado watches in April 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 April 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20221 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Martin County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Becker County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Red Lake County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin 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.