Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2023
2,438 weather alerts in 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,438
- Warnings
- 698
- Watches
- 137
- Advisories
- 561
- Busiest month
- July586 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 11, 202391 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,438 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 County237
- Carlton County177
- Lake County155
- Polk County128
- Pine County124
- Itasca County122
- Clay County118
- Aitkin County117
- Cook County117
- Renville County110
- Crow Wing County110
- Koochiching County110
- Brown County109
- Stearns County109
- Kandiyohi County106
- Dakota County105
- Carver County103
- Otter Tail County103
- Blue Earth County102
- Waseca County102
- Hennepin County102
- Goodhue County102
- Freeborn County100
- Steele County100
- Le Sueur County100
- Redwood County100
- Rice County100
- Norman County100
- Scott County99
- Washington County99
- Wright County99
- Meeker County98
- Cass County98
- Wabasha County98
- Murray County97
- Anoka County97
- Pipestone County96
- Dodge County96
- Faribault County94
- Chippewa County94
47 more counties
- Becker County94
- Nobles County93
- Mower County93
- Nicollet County93
- Mahnomen County93
- Martin County92
- Winona County92
- Lincoln County91
- Lyon County91
- Sibley County91
- Wilkin County91
- Marshall County91
- Olmsted County90
- Clearwater County90
- Lac qui Parle County89
- McLeod County89
- Watonwan County89
- Cottonwood County88
- Yellow Medicine County88
- Jackson County87
- Ramsey County87
- Beltrami County87
- Rock County86
- Pope County86
- Sherburne County86
- Swift County86
- Red Lake County86
- Wadena County85
- Pennington County80
- Lake of the Woods County80
- Houston County79
- Benton County78
- Chisago County78
- Traverse County77
- Fillmore County77
- Hubbard County77
- Roseau County76
- Stevens County75
- Isanti County74
- Kanabec County74
- Mille Lacs County74
- Big Stone County73
- Grant County73
- Morrison County71
- Todd County69
- Douglas County67
- Kittson County66
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.