Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2008
1,852 weather alerts in 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,852
- Warnings
- 1,067
- Watches
- 168
- Advisories
- 441
- Busiest month
- July461 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 11, 200881 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,852 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Saint Louis County229
- Clay County188
- Itasca County167
- Otter Tail County167
- Becker County162
- Polk County159
- Wilkin County157
- Fillmore County156
- Mower County152
- Cass County151
- Aitkin County148
- Norman County148
- Lake County146
- Nobles County146
- Carlton County142
- Marshall County139
- Koochiching County138
- Houston County138
- Olmsted County135
- Crow Wing County134
- Grant County133
- Big Stone County133
- Murray County133
- Jackson County131
- Rock County131
- Blue Earth County130
- Cottonwood County130
- Lincoln County130
- Brown County129
- Clearwater County129
- Lyon County127
- Pipestone County126
- Mahnomen County125
- Swift County125
- Freeborn County123
- Goodhue County123
- Winona County123
- Nicollet County122
- Watonwan County122
- Dodge County121
47 more counties
- Kandiyohi County121
- Waseca County121
- Faribault County120
- Steele County120
- Pine County120
- Sibley County119
- Hubbard County119
- Stearns County119
- Pope County118
- Rice County118
- Pennington County117
- Red Lake County117
- Carver County117
- Beltrami County117
- Dakota County116
- Scott County116
- Meeker County116
- Traverse County115
- Chippewa County115
- Lac qui Parle County115
- Martin County114
- Renville County114
- Le Sueur County113
- Hennepin County113
- Wadena County112
- Sherburne County112
- Kittson County111
- McLeod County111
- Redwood County111
- Yellow Medicine County111
- Cook County110
- Douglas County107
- Wabasha County107
- Wright County107
- Washington County106
- Stevens County105
- Todd County105
- Morrison County104
- Anoka County103
- Benton County103
- Mille Lacs County103
- Isanti County102
- Roseau County100
- Ramsey County97
- Kanabec County92
- Chisago County91
- Lake of the Woods County89
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.