Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2017
2,476 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,476
- Warnings
- 778
- Watches
- 109
- Advisories
- 437
- Busiest month
- July559 alerts
- Busiest day
- September 22, 201783 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,476 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 County242
- Carlton County183
- Lake County165
- Itasca County157
- Crow Wing County155
- Aitkin County152
- Polk County145
- Cass County140
- Marshall County124
- Clay County122
- Winona County122
- Cook County121
- Otter Tail County120
- Pine County120
- Brown County117
- Olmsted County116
- Wabasha County115
- Blue Earth County114
- Becker County114
- Norman County113
- Faribault County111
- Nicollet County109
- Martin County105
- Wilkin County105
- Redwood County103
- Rice County103
- Clearwater County103
- Fillmore County103
- Freeborn County102
- Kittson County102
- Mower County102
- Renville County101
- Watonwan County100
- Douglas County99
- Pope County99
- Red Lake County99
- Mahnomen County98
- Dodge County98
- Sibley County97
- Beltrami County97
47 more counties
- Swift County96
- Nobles County96
- Waseca County94
- Cottonwood County94
- Murray County94
- Traverse County94
- Lac qui Parle County93
- Koochiching County93
- Jackson County92
- Lyon County92
- Pipestone County92
- Big Stone County92
- Hubbard County92
- Pennington County92
- Goodhue County91
- Lincoln County91
- Benton County90
- Dakota County90
- Wadena County90
- Houston County90
- Morrison County89
- Steele County89
- Yellow Medicine County89
- Grant County89
- Stearns County88
- Stevens County88
- Todd County88
- Rock County88
- McLeod County87
- Chippewa County86
- Le Sueur County86
- Kandiyohi County85
- Wright County84
- Meeker County83
- Hennepin County82
- Scott County82
- Mille Lacs County80
- Kanabec County78
- Sherburne County77
- Washington County77
- Roseau County77
- Carver County76
- Isanti County75
- Chisago County72
- Ramsey County72
- Anoka County70
- Lake of the Woods County61
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.