Weather alerts in Minnesota, 2024
2,396 weather alerts in 2024, 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,396
- Warnings
- 822
- Watches
- 170
- Advisories
- 603
- Busiest month
- June656 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 18, 2024105 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,396 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 County230
- Carlton County147
- Mower County139
- Polk County137
- Olmsted County135
- Renville County133
- Lake County132
- Itasca County131
- Jackson County131
- Dodge County127
- Aitkin County126
- Otter Tail County125
- Fillmore County125
- Nobles County124
- Blue Earth County124
- Murray County123
- Rock County122
- Watonwan County122
- Yellow Medicine County120
- Pipestone County120
- Redwood County120
- Clay County118
- Cottonwood County118
- Wilkin County117
- Freeborn County117
- Martin County117
- Steele County117
- Waseca County117
- Wabasha County117
- Lyon County116
- Faribault County114
- Marshall County112
- Brown County112
- Chippewa County111
- Winona County111
- Houston County111
- Goodhue County110
- Kandiyohi County110
- Cass County109
- Swift County107
47 more counties
- Lincoln County107
- Nicollet County107
- Crow Wing County107
- Lac qui Parle County106
- Sibley County106
- Dakota County106
- Koochiching County105
- Norman County102
- Pope County102
- Cook County101
- Rice County101
- Hennepin County101
- Ramsey County101
- Washington County101
- Grant County100
- Carver County99
- Stevens County98
- Le Sueur County96
- Douglas County95
- Pine County95
- Anoka County94
- Kittson County93
- Becker County93
- Stearns County93
- McLeod County92
- Scott County92
- Meeker County91
- Traverse County90
- Wright County90
- Todd County89
- Big Stone County86
- Sherburne County86
- Mahnomen County85
- Pennington County82
- Red Lake County82
- Beltrami County81
- Chisago County80
- Roseau County79
- Morrison County78
- Benton County75
- Hubbard County74
- Clearwater County73
- Lake of the Woods County73
- Isanti County73
- Wadena County71
- Mille Lacs County68
- Kanabec County60
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.