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Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2022
7 tornado watches in May 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 May 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20222 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County6
- Faribault County6
- Waseca County6
- Freeborn County5
- Le Sueur County5
- Nicollet County5
- Rice County5
- Sibley County5
- Steele County5
- Brown County5
- Martin County5
- Watonwan County5
- Anoka County4
- Benton County4
- Carver County4
- Chisago County4
- Dakota County4
- Goodhue County4
- Hennepin County4
- Isanti County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Ramsey County4
- Scott County4
- Sherburne County4
- Stearns County4
- Washington County4
- Wright County4
- Redwood County4
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
37 more counties
- Pope County3
- Renville County3
- Swift County3
- Aitkin County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Houston County2
- Pine County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Becker County2
- Big Stone County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Stevens County2
- Todd County2
- Traverse County2
- Wadena County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Wilkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Saint Louis County1
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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.