Alert archive / Minnesota / 1987
Weather alerts in Minnesota, May 1987
22 weather alerts in May 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 May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 22
- Warnings
- 22
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 14, 198712 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Chisago, Washington | 40 min |
| May 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Wabasha | 26 min |
| May 10, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin | 61 min |
| May 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 60 min |
| May 13, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti | 57 min |
| May 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Hennepin | 42 min |
| May 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 60 min |
| May 13, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Redwood | 42 min |
| May 13, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 55 min |
| May 13, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mille Lacs | 55 min |
| May 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin | 36 min |
| May 13, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Kanabec | 57 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Dakota | 33 min |
| May 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue | 40 min |
| May 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 37 min |
| May 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Rice | 37 min |
| May 13, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Pine | 27 min |
| May 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Goodhue, Steele | 38 min |
| May 13, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Waseca | 38 min |
| May 13, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dodge, Olmsted | 50 min |
| May 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 53 min |
| May 16, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 68 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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Washington County1
- Wabasha County1
- Aitkin County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Isanti County1
- Meeker County1
- Redwood County1
- Carver County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Kanabec County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Rice County1
- Pine County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Olmsted County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay 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. Rebuilt daily.