Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2016
2,760 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,760
- Warnings
- 939
- Watches
- 140
- Advisories
- 423
- Busiest month
- July662 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 17, 201696 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,760 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 County235
- Blue Earth County153
- Polk County153
- Crow Wing County153
- Lake County150
- Carlton County149
- Cass County148
- Aitkin County147
- Mower County142
- Waseca County141
- Koochiching County137
- Otter Tail County135
- Steele County134
- Pine County134
- Clay County132
- Itasca County131
- Becker County130
- Nicollet County129
- Wilkin County129
- Freeborn County129
- Norman County128
- Dodge County127
- Olmsted County127
- Kandiyohi County126
- Le Sueur County126
- Stearns County126
- Brown County125
- Faribault County125
- Fillmore County125
- Big Stone County124
- Nobles County123
- Jackson County122
- Renville County122
- Rice County122
- Sibley County122
- Winona County121
- McLeod County121
- Martin County120
- Swift County120
- Wabasha County120
47 more counties
- Chippewa County119
- Watonwan County119
- Wright County118
- Traverse County117
- Lac qui Parle County117
- Todd County117
- Hennepin County117
- Houston County116
- Meeker County116
- Goodhue County115
- Stevens County114
- Cottonwood County113
- Murray County113
- Marshall County113
- Lincoln County111
- Redwood County111
- Carver County110
- Lyon County107
- Beltrami County107
- Grant County107
- Scott County107
- Cook County107
- Mahnomen County106
- Pipestone County105
- Yellow Medicine County105
- Rock County104
- Kittson County102
- Morrison County102
- Pope County101
- Douglas County101
- Wadena County101
- Pennington County99
- Dakota County99
- Clearwater County98
- Red Lake County97
- Sherburne County97
- Roseau County93
- Benton County93
- Hubbard County92
- Mille Lacs County90
- Washington County87
- Ramsey County86
- Anoka County85
- Lake of the Woods County84
- Kanabec County81
- Chisago County79
- Isanti County79
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.