Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2018
2,770 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,770
- Warnings
- 892
- Watches
- 157
- Advisories
- 483
- Busiest month
- June526 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 29, 201892 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,770 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 County263
- Carlton County213
- Aitkin County203
- Itasca County184
- Koochiching County179
- Cass County178
- Polk County161
- Crow Wing County160
- Clay County154
- Lake County149
- Pine County147
- Freeborn County144
- Mower County144
- Olmsted County139
- Faribault County138
- Martin County136
- Dodge County136
- Blue Earth County134
- Becker County134
- Waseca County131
- Otter Tail County131
- Winona County131
- Marshall County130
- Fillmore County130
- Steele County129
- Beltrami County129
- Wilkin County129
- Brown County128
- Jackson County128
- Watonwan County127
- Norman County127
- Hennepin County126
- Redwood County124
- Goodhue County122
- Houston County121
- Dakota County120
- Wabasha County120
- Clearwater County119
- Wadena County118
- Scott County117
47 more counties
- Hubbard County116
- Nobles County115
- Ramsey County114
- Rock County114
- Nicollet County113
- Mahnomen County113
- Washington County112
- Renville County111
- Murray County111
- Cook County110
- Pennington County107
- Cottonwood County107
- Carver County106
- Le Sueur County106
- Red Lake County106
- Rice County104
- Sibley County103
- Pipestone County103
- Traverse County100
- Kittson County100
- Lake of the Woods County100
- Big Stone County97
- Lyon County97
- Anoka County96
- Kanabec County96
- Mille Lacs County95
- Roseau County94
- Stearns County93
- Grant County93
- Kandiyohi County92
- Yellow Medicine County92
- Chippewa County91
- Douglas County91
- Todd County91
- Wright County91
- McLeod County90
- Pope County90
- Stevens County90
- Swift County89
- Sherburne County88
- Isanti County87
- Lac qui Parle County87
- Morrison County87
- Lincoln County87
- Benton County84
- Chisago County84
- Meeker County84
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.