Alert archive / Minnesota / 1987
Weather alerts in Minnesota, August 1987
57 weather alerts in August 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 57
- Warnings
- 57
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 30, 198713 alerts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 50 min |
| Aug 1, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 69 min |
| Aug 1, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk | 55 min |
| Aug 11, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Otter Tail | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 54 min |
| Aug 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 54 min |
| Aug 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail, Wadena | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 38 min |
| Aug 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Stearns | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 68 min |
| Aug 16, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower, Olmsted | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Mahnomen | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Otter Tail | 57 min |
| Aug 21, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 18 min |
| Aug 21, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele | 22 min |
| Aug 21, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Mower | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 48 min |
| Aug 21, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Yellow Medicine | 50 min |
| Aug 21, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 54 min |
| Aug 29, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Pine | 57 min |
| Aug 29, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Washington | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Isanti | 52 min |
| Aug 29, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Kanabec | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 67 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 51 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Itasca County6
- Otter Tail County6
- Cass County4
- Morrison County4
- Becker County4
- Clay County4
- Polk County3
- Wadena County3
- Chippewa County3
- Pine County3
- Chisago County3
- Wilkin County2
- Beltrami County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Todd County2
- Stearns County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Meeker County2
- Sherburne County2
- Mower County2
- Isanti County2
- Anoka County2
- Pennington County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Roseau County1
- Norman County1
- Hubbard County1
- Pope County1
- Swift County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Benton County1
- Pipestone County1
- Olmsted County1
- Waseca County1
- Freeborn County1
- Steele County1
- Dodge County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Wright 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. Rebuilt daily.