Alert archive / Minnesota / Benton County
Weather alerts in Benton County, Minnesota, 2024
75 weather alerts in 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Benton County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 75
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 25
- Busiest month
- June19 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 12, 20246 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Benton County in 2024 had a tornado report inside them.
Benton County, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 6 | 14% | 2 | 100% | 31 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Twin Cities, MN: tornado warnings | 36 | 14 | 61% | 34 | 65% | 14 min |
| NWS Twin Cities, MN: severe thunderstorm warnings | 196 | 121 | 38% | 380 | 74% | 22 min |
| NWS Twin Cities, MN: flash flood warnings | 11 | 6 | 45% | 12 | 67% | 120 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 3:09 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | 57 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:05 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MPX | 4 days |
| Jan 25, 1:24 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 11 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:19 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 20 hr |
| Jan 27, 1:27 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 41 hr |
| Jan 30, 6:26 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 12 hr |
| Jan 31, 2:02 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 19 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:41 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 22 hr |
| Mar 7, 9:28 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MPX | 47 min |
| Mar 20, 3:05 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | 43 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:24 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | 34 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:36 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | 71 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | 30 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:05 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | 18 hr |
| May 10, 6:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| May 20, 2:16 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | 32 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jun 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jun 12, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 8:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MPX | 35 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 18, 12:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jun 18, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jun 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Jul 13, 8:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MPX | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 31, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jul 31, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | 19 min |
| Aug 3, 8:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Aug 24, 1:36 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MPX | 54 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | 53 min |
| Aug 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Oct 3, 1:59 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MPX | 19 hr |
| Oct 5, 4:50 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | 14 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:31 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | MPX | 18 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | 11 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | 28 hr |
| Oct 19, 10:42 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 8 hr |
| Oct 31, 10:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 8:30 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 12 hr |
| Nov 5, 11:50 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 10 hr |
| Nov 7, 12:01 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 8 hr |
| Nov 13, 11:30 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:35 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 10 hr |
| Dec 3, 1:41 PM CST | Wind Advisory | MPX | 33 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:56 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 22 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:15 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | 38 hr |
| Dec 23, 8:00 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 16 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:11 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 45 hr |
| Dec 28, 7:02 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MPX | 52 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 | 7 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 21 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 16 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.