Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches / 2025
Tornado Watches in Minnesota, May 2025
1 tornado watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20251 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 15, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carver, Cass, Chisago and 29 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Aitkin County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Carver County1
- Cass County1
- Chisago County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Dakota County1
- Douglas County1
- Goodhue County1
- Grant County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pine County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Wabasha County1
- Wadena County1
- Washington County1
- Wilkin County1
- Winona County1
- Wright 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.