Weather alerts in Otter Tail County, Minnesota

3,349 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Otter Tail County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,349
Warnings: 1,130
Watches: 542
Advisories: 928
Busiest year: 2010182 alerts
Average year: 82over 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	650
Tornado Warning	123
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	257
Tornado Watch	75
Mesoscale Discussion	603
Special Weather Statement	146
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	20
Flash Flood Warning	45
Flash Flood Watch	13
Flood Watch	18
Areal Flood Advisory	45
Winter
Blizzard Warning	47
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	83
Blizzard Watch	14
Winter Storm Watch	105
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	27
Snow Advisory	5
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Winter Weather Advisory	263
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	30
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	6
Freeze Warning	25
Wind Chill Warning	38
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	45
Wind Chill Advisory	186
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	13
High Wind Watch	7
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	165
Fire
Red Flag Warning	66
Fire Weather Watch	36
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	142
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 11, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	48 min
Sep 11, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	55 min
Sep 11, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	58 min
Sep 6, 6:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	6 hr
Sep 6, 5:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	6 hr
Sep 3, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	59 min
Sep 3, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	52 min
Sep 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	64 min
Sep 3, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	55 min
Sep 3, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	59 min
Aug 17, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	38 min
Aug 17, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	53 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.