Weather alerts in Minnesota, October 2021

159 weather alerts in October 2021, 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 October 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 159
Warnings: 38
Watches: 3
Advisories: 45
Busiest day: October 10, 202155 alerts

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By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 12:42 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Saint Louis	8 hr
Oct 2, 4:09 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		36 hr
Oct 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		34 hr
Oct 3, 2:49 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Freeborn and 20 more	20 hr
Oct 3, 2:54 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more	21 hr
Oct 4, 8:27 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha	118 min
Oct 4, 2:25 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more	22 hr
Oct 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha	18 hr
Oct 4, 2:43 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 22 more	19 hr
Oct 5, 3:36 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	18 hr
Oct 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		9 hr
Oct 6, 10:02 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	118 min
Oct 6, 10:21 AM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		29 hr
Oct 6, 3:23 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	21 hr
Oct 7, 3:36 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Lake, Saint Louis	12 hr
Oct 7, 3:40 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		12 hr
Oct 8, 2:56 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	22 hr
Oct 8, 3:19 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		35 hr
Oct 8, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Polk	33 min
Oct 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Polk, Red Lake	59 min
Oct 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman, Polk	52 min
Oct 8, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Marshall	29 min
Oct 8, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Roseau	34 min
Oct 8, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Polk, Red Lake	56 min
Oct 8, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Norman	24 min
Oct 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Polk	28 min
Oct 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau	32 min
Oct 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay, Norman	37 min
Oct 8, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Red Lake	26 min
Oct 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Norman	31 min
Oct 8, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Norman	23 min
Oct 8, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Red Lake	32 min
Oct 8, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Norman	34 min
Oct 8, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Norman	24 min
Oct 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen	33 min
Oct 8, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen	34 min
Oct 8, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Mahnomen, Norman, Polk	30 min
Oct 8, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen	32 min
Oct 8, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen	32 min
Oct 8, 9:34 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Fillmore, Houston, Winona	12 hr
Oct 8, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Clearwater	37 min
Oct 8, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Clearwater	28 min
Oct 9, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	32 min
Oct 9, 12:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lincoln	2 hr
Oct 9, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	36 min
Oct 9, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Big Stone, Traverse, Wilkin	7 hr
Oct 9, 3:48 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		24 hr
Oct 9, 4:26 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	12 hr
Oct 9, 6:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 9 more	90 min
Oct 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	60 min
Oct 9, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Cass, Chippewa, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant and 14 more	7 hr
Oct 9, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Wilkin	62 min
Oct 9, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	21 min
Oct 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine	62 min
Oct 9, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	43 min
Oct 9, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	41 min
Oct 9, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin	64 min
Oct 9, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	25 min
Oct 9, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Stevens, Swift	49 min
Oct 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Lac qui Parle	47 min
Oct 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin	41 min
Oct 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	Douglas, Pope	45 min
Oct 9, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	37 min
Oct 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens and 4 more	93 min
Oct 9, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Big Stone	9 hr
Oct 9, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Swift, Todd, Yellow Medicine	3 hr
Oct 9, 11:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Cass, Chippewa, Crow Wing, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 7 more	115 min
Oct 10, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Carlton	27 min
Oct 10, 8:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cass	33 min
Oct 10, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	26 min
Oct 10, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	15 min
Oct 10, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	14 min
Oct 10, 12:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	28 min
Oct 10, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	27 min
Oct 10, 12:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, Saint Louis	2 hr
Oct 10, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	33 min
Oct 10, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis	7 hr
Oct 10, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Itasca	25 min
Oct 10, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	34 min
Oct 10, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	13 min
Oct 10, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis	34 min
Oct 10, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	29 min
Oct 10, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	18 min
Oct 10, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	28 min
Oct 10, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Koochiching	23 min
Oct 10, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		21 min
Oct 10, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	31 min
Oct 10, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		87 min
Oct 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Saint Louis	18 min
Oct 10, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Lake, Saint Louis	49 min
Oct 10, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		25 min
Oct 10, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	21 min
Oct 10, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		18 min
Oct 10, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Saint Louis	26 min
Oct 10, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	32 min
Oct 10, 4:31 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		20 hr
Oct 10, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	29 min
Oct 10, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		27 min
Oct 10, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		32 min
Oct 10, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	33 min
Oct 10, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		56 min
Oct 10, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH		30 min
Oct 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	34 min
Oct 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DLH	Cook	47 min
Oct 10, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DLH	Cook	39 min
Oct 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	35 min
Oct 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	45 min
Oct 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		60 min
Oct 10, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Cook	28 min
Oct 10, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	DLH		24 min
Oct 12, 10:15 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		42 hr
Oct 13, 2:53 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	20 hr
Oct 13, 3:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle and 9 more	10 hr
Oct 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	40 min
Oct 13, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Douglas, Pope, Stevens	51 min
Oct 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Wilkin	26 min
Oct 13, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Otter Tail	27 min
Oct 13, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Clay	29 min
Oct 13, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Becker, Otter Tail	24 min
Oct 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen, Norman	26 min
Oct 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Becker	23 min
Oct 13, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Crow Wing	49 min
Oct 13, 6:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Benton, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Morrison and 1 more	59 min
Oct 13, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Clearwater	41 min
Oct 13, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	42 min
Oct 13, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Beltrami	51 min
Oct 13, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DLH	Lake	52 min
Oct 14, 3:56 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		60 hr
Oct 15, 3:30 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	30 hr
Oct 15, 11:38 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	22 hr
Oct 15, 11:45 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more	21 hr
Oct 15, 11:56 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	MPX	Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn and 19 more	21 hr
Oct 15, 11:56 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	MPX	Douglas, Morrison, Pope, Stevens, Todd	21 hr
Oct 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	FSD	Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	19 hr
Oct 15, 4:02 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		28 hr
Oct 19, 5:32 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		55 hr
Oct 19, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Fillmore	24 min
Oct 20, 7:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 2 more	96 min
Oct 20, 11:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Dakota	34 min
Oct 20, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MPX	Chisago	24 min
Oct 20, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Fillmore	63 min
Oct 20, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ARX	Winona	61 min
Oct 21, 3:07 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	ARX	Houston	30 hr
Oct 21, 3:07 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona	30 hr
Oct 22, 1:56 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	ARX	Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona	19 hr
Oct 23, 3:45 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		60 hr
Oct 26, 2:55 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	16 hr
Oct 26, 3:10 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	16 hr
Oct 26, 3:13 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	MPX	Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more	15 hr
Oct 26, 3:15 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		31 hr
Oct 26, 3:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman and 3 more	14 hr
Oct 28, 1:41 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin	7 hr
Oct 29, 1:06 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more	10 hr
Oct 29, 3:25 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching	6 hr
Oct 29, 11:06 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Beltrami, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Wadena	114 min
Oct 30, 12:47 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis	9 hr
Oct 30, 4:08 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		3 days
Oct 30, 7:12 AM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	DLH		3 hr
Oct 31, 3:54 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		42 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	22
Tornado Warning	5
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	3
Mesoscale Discussion	7
Special Weather Statement	66
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	6
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	6
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	19
Marine
Special Marine Warning	4
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	6
Small Craft Advisory	11

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.