Blowing Dust Advisories in Minnesota
8 blowing dust advisories since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blowing dust advisories reaches back to 2005.
Blowing Dust Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blowing Dust Advisories
- 8
- Busiest year
- 20266 blowing dust advisories
- Average year
- 4over 2 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kittson County4
- Marshall County4
- Polk County4
- Norman County3
- Wilkin County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Redwood County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Becker County2
- Brown County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clay County2
- Grant County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Nicollet County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pope County2
- Renville County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Sibley County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
The latest blowing dust advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:26 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau | 7 hr |
| May 14, 12:36 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, McLeod and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 9:32 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman and 3 more | 14 hr |
| May 12, 4:01 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 12, 1:59 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Redwood, Renville and 3 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.