Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in North Dakota, May 2012
2 tornado watches in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20121 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 1, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richland | 6 hr |
| May 22, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide and 21 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Richland County1
- Barnes County1
- Benson County1
- Bottineau County1
- Burke County1
- Burleigh County1
- Divide County1
- Eddy County1
- Foster County1
- Griggs County1
- Kidder County1
- McHenry County1
- McLean County1
- Mercer County1
- Morton County1
- Mountrail County1
- Nelson County1
- Oliver County1
- Pierce County1
- Ramsey County1
- Renville County1
- Rolette County1
- Sheridan County1
- Stutsman County1
- Towner County1
- Ward County1
- Wells County1
- Williams 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.