Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2011
2,478 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,478
- Warnings
- 1,009
- Watches
- 182
- Advisories
- 519
- Busiest month
- July700 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 2, 201163 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,478 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 County240
- Itasca County178
- Lake County178
- Carlton County170
- Polk County168
- Clay County164
- Aitkin County158
- Wilkin County156
- Stearns County155
- Pine County154
- Chippewa County151
- Otter Tail County149
- Renville County148
- Kandiyohi County147
- Cook County147
- Hennepin County147
- Scott County145
- Crow Wing County144
- Pope County144
- Marshall County142
- Sibley County142
- Koochiching County141
- Meeker County141
- Swift County141
- Carver County141
- Dakota County141
- Lac qui Parle County139
- Norman County137
- Wright County137
- Cass County136
- Traverse County136
- Anoka County136
- Grant County134
- Yellow Medicine County134
- McLeod County131
- Stevens County131
- Big Stone County127
- Redwood County126
- Douglas County125
- Le Sueur County125
47 more counties
- Benton County125
- Kittson County123
- Brown County123
- Rice County123
- Washington County123
- Todd County122
- Becker County121
- Ramsey County121
- Nicollet County120
- Goodhue County120
- Pipestone County118
- Isanti County118
- Mille Lacs County118
- Morrison County117
- Blue Earth County117
- Steele County117
- Sherburne County117
- Rock County113
- Red Lake County112
- Freeborn County112
- Fillmore County112
- Waseca County111
- Jackson County110
- Pennington County109
- Mower County109
- Houston County109
- Olmsted County108
- Beltrami County107
- Chisago County107
- Winona County107
- Clearwater County106
- Kanabec County106
- Cottonwood County105
- Nobles County105
- Mahnomen County104
- Murray County104
- Wabasha County103
- Roseau County102
- Faribault County102
- Lyon County101
- Martin County99
- Watonwan County98
- Lincoln County97
- Dodge County97
- Wadena County88
- Hubbard County87
- Lake of the Woods County71
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20102012
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.