Weather alerts in Polk County, Minnesota

3,822 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Polk County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,822
Warnings: 1,462
Watches: 546
Advisories: 1,182
Busiest year: 2022241 alerts
Average year: 98over 39 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	763
Tornado Warning	139
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	235
Tornado Watch	65
Mesoscale Discussion	523
Special Weather Statement	109
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Warning	61
River Flood Warning	103
Flash Flood Watch	12
Flood Watch	14
River Flood Watch	26
Areal Flood Advisory	46
Winter
Blizzard Warning	65
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	2
Snow Squall Warning	9
Winter Storm Warning	77
Blizzard Watch	17
Winter Storm Watch	108
Blowing Snow Advisory	3
Freezing Rain Advisory	30
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	319
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	4
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	23
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	8
Freeze Warning	39
Wind Chill Warning	57
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	7
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	24
Frost Advisory	81
Wind Chill Advisory	259
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	1
High Wind Warning	21
High Wind Watch	11
Blowing Dust Advisory	4
Wind Advisory	225
Fire
Red Flag Warning	73
Fire Weather Watch	41
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	155
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	64 min
Sep 3, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	65 min
Sep 3, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	63 min
Sep 3, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	56 min
Sep 3, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	59 min
Sep 3, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	61 min
Sep 3, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	66 min
Sep 3, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	56 min
Sep 3, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FGF	67 min
Aug 24, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	54 min
Aug 17, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	44 min
Aug 3, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	26 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.