Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2024
1 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20241 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 21, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 16 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.