Alert archive / Minnesota / Polk County / 2020
Weather alerts in Polk County, Minnesota, August 2020
50 weather alerts in August 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 50
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 14, 202020 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 11:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Aug 9, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Aug 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Aug 13, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | 9 hr |
| Aug 13, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 12:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | 8 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:02 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | 5 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | 13 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Aug 14, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 18 min |
| Aug 14, 9:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | 5 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Aug 16, 9:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | 4 days |
| Aug 16, 9:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | 4 days |
| Aug 19, 4:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 5:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 7:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 7:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 7:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 2:26 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | 8 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:23 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | 6 hr |
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 | 21 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 8 |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
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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.