Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2005
1,408 weather alerts in 2005, 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,408
- Warnings
- 948
- Watches
- 96
- Advisories
- 120
- Busiest month
- June487 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 8, 200562 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,408 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 685 |
| Tornado Warning | 122 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 62 |
| Tornado Watch | 22 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 244 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 92 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 4 |
| Heavy Snow Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 9 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 12 |
| Blowing Snow Advisory | 3 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 9 |
| Snow Advisory | 12 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 31 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 8 |
| Frost Advisory | 7 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 5 |
| Wind Advisory | 24 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 27 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 19 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County133
- Cottonwood County130
- Nobles County127
- Wilkin County124
- Pipestone County123
- Blue Earth County122
- Nicollet County122
- Brown County121
- Sibley County121
- Rock County120
- Martin County119
- Meeker County119
- Watonwan County119
- Murray County119
- Scott County118
- Steele County118
- Redwood County117
- Hennepin County115
- McLeod County115
- Waseca County115
- Clay County115
- Faribault County113
- Rice County113
- Polk County113
- Le Sueur County112
- Otter Tail County112
- Goodhue County111
- Renville County111
- Lyon County111
- Carver County110
- Dakota County110
- Stearns County110
- Wright County110
- Freeborn County108
- Yellow Medicine County108
- Kandiyohi County105
- Becker County105
- Lincoln County105
- Douglas County105
- Anoka County104
47 more counties
- Chippewa County104
- Swift County104
- Dodge County103
- Olmsted County103
- Washington County102
- Grant County102
- Ramsey County101
- Norman County100
- Wabasha County99
- Pope County98
- Lac qui Parle County98
- Sherburne County97
- Fillmore County96
- Marshall County96
- Traverse County94
- Stevens County92
- Mower County91
- Winona County89
- Red Lake County88
- Wadena County86
- Pennington County85
- Beltrami County85
- Mahnomen County84
- Todd County83
- Houston County82
- Clearwater County81
- Kittson County78
- Chisago County77
- Benton County77
- Hubbard County75
- Mille Lacs County75
- Pine County75
- Big Stone County74
- Roseau County73
- Cass County72
- Morrison County72
- Isanti County71
- Crow Wing County71
- Kanabec County67
- Saint Louis County67
- Lake of the Woods County62
- Aitkin County60
- Carlton County60
- Koochiching County57
- Itasca County53
- Lake County37
- Cook County28
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.