Weather alerts in Olmsted County, Minnesota

2,990 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Olmsted County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,990
Warnings: 688
Watches: 546
Advisories: 762
Busiest year: 2019185 alerts
Average year: 73over 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	354
Tornado Warning	39
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	247
Tornado Watch	101
Mesoscale Discussion	756
Special Weather Statement	238
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	22
Flash Flood Warning	43
River Flood Warning	49
Flash Flood Watch	55
Flood Watch	24
River Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	26
River Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	19
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	70
Blizzard Watch	3
Winter Storm Watch	83
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	12
Snow Advisory	10
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	4
Winter Weather Advisory	213
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	3
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	44
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	35
Wind Chill Warning	16
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	32
Wind Chill Advisory	121
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	4
High Wind Watch	4
Wind Advisory	122
Fire
Red Flag Warning	21
Fire Weather Watch	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	162
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 19, 10:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ARX	8 hr
Sep 2, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	58 min
Aug 18, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	43 min
Aug 18, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	65 min
Jul 25, 2:20 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ARX	67 hr
Jul 20, 7:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	34 min
Jul 1, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	31 min
Jul 1, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	51 min
Jun 28, 12:34 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ARX	68 hr
Jun 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ARX	44 min
Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	55 min
Jun 10, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ARX	39 min

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive

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.