Alert archive / Minnesota / Cass County

Weather alerts in Cass County, Minnesota, 2010

142 weather alerts in 2010, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cass County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
142
Warnings
45
Watches
16
Advisories
34
Busiest month
July39 alerts
Busiest day
June 17, 201015 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

1 of 7 tornado warnings covering Cass County in 2010 had a tornado report inside them.

Cass County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings7186%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings25868%1377%20 min
Flash flood warnings30100%0

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Duluth, MN: tornado warnings34974%1493%19 min
NWS Duluth, MN: severe thunderstorm warnings1555465%16880%27 min
NWS Duluth, MN: flash flood warnings12467%956%56 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 1, 3:06 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDLH33 hr
Jan 7, 3:05 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDLH19 hr
Jan 18, 8:29 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH13 hr
Jan 21, 6:15 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH9 hr
Jan 22, 3:40 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLH25 hr
Jan 22, 3:01 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH4 days
Jan 23, 7:42 AM CSTIce Storm WarningDLH9 hr
Jan 27, 3:13 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDLH20 hr
Feb 4, 8:15 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH7 hr
Feb 6, 3:34 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH53 hr
Feb 13, 4:49 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH5 hr
Mar 8, 6:36 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH4 hr
Mar 12, 11:07 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH11 hr
Mar 16, 6:43 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDLH17 hr
Apr 10, 6:15 AM CDTFire Weather WatchDLH4 hr
Apr 10, 10:17 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDLH10 hr
Apr 16, 4:33 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDLH15 hr
Apr 27, 2:51 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDLH13 hr
Apr 28, 3:35 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDLH16 hr
Apr 29, 11:42 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH8 hr
May 7, 7:00 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH15 hr
May 22, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
May 23, 1:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
May 23, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH55 min
May 24, 1:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH57 min
May 24, 1:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH41 min
May 24, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH29 min
May 24, 4:21 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
May 24, 7:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jun 15, 11:25 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH11 hr
Jun 17, 12:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH26 min
Jun 17, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH35 min
Jun 17, 1:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 17, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH36 min
Jun 17, 1:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH28 min
Jun 17, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH26 min
Jun 17, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH50 min
Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 17, 3:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 17, 4:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH52 min
Jun 17, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH28 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH33 min
Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH32 min
Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH35 min
Jun 17, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH18 min
Jun 17, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH43 min
Jun 17, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH36 min
Jun 21, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH63 min
Jun 21, 8:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH22 min
Jun 24, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 3, 10:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH45 min
Jul 3, 11:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH40 min
Jul 4, 12:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH37 min
Jul 4, 1:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH45 min
Jul 4, 3:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDLH4 hr
Jul 4, 4:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH12 min
Jul 10, 6:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jul 10, 6:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH36 min
Jul 10, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH59 min
Jul 11, 4:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH56 min
Jul 14, 3:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 14, 5:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH37 min
Jul 14, 6:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 14, 6:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH11 min
Jul 14, 7:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH56 min
Jul 14, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH61 min
Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH19 min
Jul 14, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH32 min
Jul 14, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH48 min
Jul 15, 5:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH35 min
Jul 15, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH58 min
Jul 15, 8:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH37 min
Jul 17, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH43 min
Jul 17, 12:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC11 hr
Jul 17, 12:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDLH26 min
Jul 17, 1:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH39 min
Jul 17, 2:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH50 min
Jul 17, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH33 min
Jul 17, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH47 min
Jul 17, 5:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDLH119 min
Jul 24, 5:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH58 min
Jul 27, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 27, 4:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH60 min
Jul 27, 6:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH43 min
Jul 27, 7:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jul 27, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH45 min
Jul 27, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 30, 7:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH49 min
Jul 30, 7:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH78 min
Aug 1, 8:14 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryDLH6 hr
Aug 1, 8:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH53 min
Aug 2, 12:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDLH4 hr
Aug 3, 1:18 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH6 hr
Aug 3, 7:06 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH55 min
Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 7, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH48 min
Aug 7, 8:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Aug 7, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH39 min
Aug 7, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH38 min
Aug 8, 8:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Aug 8, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Aug 8, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Aug 9, 4:06 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH6 hr
Aug 12, 9:48 PM CDTFlood WatchDLH25 hr
Aug 17, 10:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH62 min
Aug 17, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH62 min
Aug 18, 1:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH47 min
Aug 18, 2:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH39 min
Aug 20, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH63 min
Aug 21, 9:21 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDLH12 hr
Aug 30, 9:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Aug 30, 10:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH49 min
Aug 30, 11:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH45 min
Sep 2, 3:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH45 min
Sep 6, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDLH33 min
Sep 17, 3:44 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDLH12 hr
Sep 18, 3:33 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDLH12 hr
Sep 20, 7:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 22, 4:02 AM CDTFlood WatchDLH48 hr
Sep 25, 3:33 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDLH28 hr
Oct 1, 3:31 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDLH16 hr
Oct 2, 2:41 PM CDTFreeze WarningDLH17 hr
Oct 25, 2:14 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDLH49 hr
Oct 26, 3:44 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningDLH14 hr
Oct 26, 3:44 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH20 hr
Nov 12, 3:29 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH44 hr
Nov 20, 2:55 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH27 hr
Nov 22, 4:09 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH19 hr
Nov 23, 3:31 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH42 hr
Nov 28, 3:27 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLH13 hr
Nov 29, 4:03 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDLH55 hr
Nov 29, 4:03 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH55 hr
Dec 3, 3:47 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH26 hr
Dec 10, 5:24 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDLH34 hr
Dec 11, 3:20 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDLH20 hr
Dec 12, 3:35 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDLH20 hr
Dec 19, 3:42 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLH12 hr
Dec 19, 3:53 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDLH56 hr
Dec 28, 9:46 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLH18 hr
Dec 29, 3:53 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDLH68 hr
Dec 30, 11:35 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 30, 5:43 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr

By product

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

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