Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2020
2,796 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,796
- Warnings
- 921
- Watches
- 118
- Advisories
- 515
- Busiest month
- July703 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 14, 2020182 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,796 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 County219
- Polk County212
- Marshall County211
- Otter Tail County172
- Cass County172
- Norman County166
- Carlton County159
- Crow Wing County159
- Clay County157
- Wilkin County157
- Itasca County157
- Brown County154
- Aitkin County152
- Kittson County152
- Nicollet County150
- Sibley County147
- Becker County144
- Renville County144
- Hennepin County143
- Scott County139
- Red Lake County138
- Pennington County137
- Dakota County137
- Le Sueur County135
- Nobles County133
- Jackson County132
- Redwood County131
- Blue Earth County131
- Murray County130
- Carver County130
- Kandiyohi County130
- Clearwater County130
- Lake County129
- Cottonwood County128
- Grant County127
- Watonwan County127
- Rice County127
- Hubbard County126
- Washington County124
- Beltrami County124
47 more counties
- Roseau County124
- Mahnomen County123
- Waseca County123
- Martin County122
- Steele County122
- Chippewa County122
- Stearns County122
- Swift County122
- Freeborn County121
- Mower County121
- Todd County121
- Wadena County120
- Lac qui Parle County120
- Meeker County120
- McLeod County119
- Faribault County116
- Pope County116
- Wright County115
- Yellow Medicine County115
- Pine County114
- Olmsted County114
- Lyon County113
- Pipestone County112
- Douglas County112
- Goodhue County112
- Traverse County111
- Koochiching County111
- Big Stone County110
- Fillmore County108
- Lincoln County107
- Morrison County107
- Dodge County107
- Stevens County106
- Rock County103
- Anoka County103
- Ramsey County103
- Cook County102
- Benton County95
- Mille Lacs County94
- Winona County93
- Wabasha County93
- Houston County89
- Lake of the Woods County86
- Kanabec County85
- Sherburne County82
- Isanti County77
- Chisago County76
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.