Alert archive / Minnesota / 2003
Weather alerts in Minnesota, May 2003
25 weather alerts in May 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 14, 20037 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 4, 9:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 117 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 5 hr |
| May 10, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Houston | 30 min |
| May 11, 4:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 14, 12:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 20 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 27 min |
| May 14, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Nicollet | 47 min |
| May 14, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 50 min |
| May 14, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur | 27 min |
| May 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mower | 61 min |
| May 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth | 38 min |
| May 22, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 48 min |
| May 22, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 44 min |
| May 22, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 40 min |
| May 22, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 37 min |
| May 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 49 min |
| May 22, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope | 33 min |
| May 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 18 more | 113 min |
| May 29, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Chisago and 19 more | 89 min |
| May 29, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 40 min |
| May 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 41 min |
| May 30, 1:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass and 20 more | 67 min |
| May 30, 4:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 58 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 | 14 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hubbard County7
- Beltrami County6
- Blue Earth County5
- Wadena County5
- Clearwater County5
- Aitkin County4
- Becker County4
- Carlton County4
- Cass County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Itasca County4
- Koochiching County4
- Mahnomen County4
- Marshall County4
- Pennington County4
- Polk County4
- Red Lake County4
- Roseau County4
- Houston County3
- Benton County3
- Kittson County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Pine County3
- Todd County3
- Dakota County2
- Goodhue County2
- Ramsey County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Mower County2
- Nicollet County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pope County2
- Norman County2
- Nobles County1
- Rock County1
- Washington County1
24 more counties
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Hennepin County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Wright County1
- Brown County1
- Douglas County1
- Clay County1
- Wilkin County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti 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.