Weather alerts in Freeborn County, Minnesota

2,969 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Freeborn County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 2,969
Warnings: 615
Watches: 586
Advisories: 776
Busiest year: 2010174 alerts
Average year: 72over 41 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 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	283
Tornado Warning	71
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	245
Tornado Watch	118
Mesoscale Discussion	750
Special Weather Statement	242
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	14
Flash Flood Warning	45
Flash Flood Watch	54
Flood Watch	26
Areal Flood Advisory	15
Winter
Blizzard Warning	33
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	63
Blizzard Watch	9
Winter Storm Watch	80
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	12
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	211
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	9
Extreme Heat Watch	5
Heat Advisory	58
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	21
Wind Chill Warning	20
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	4
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	30
Wind Chill Advisory	118
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	9
High Wind Watch	5
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	163
Fire
Red Flag Warning	38
Fire Weather Watch	22
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	144
Freezing Fog Advisory	4

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 19, 1:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	4 hr
Sep 18, 10:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	2 hr
Aug 7, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	47 min
Jul 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	56 hr
Jul 20, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	45 min
Jul 8, 5:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	3 hr
Jul 8, 4:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	35 min
Jun 30, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	48 min
Jun 28, 12:44 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	47 hr
Jun 7, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MPX	3 hr
May 17, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	27 min

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.