Weather alerts in Pope County, Minnesota

2,714 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pope County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,714
Warnings: 658
Watches: 503
Advisories: 759
Busiest year: 2012145 alerts
Average year: 68over 40 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	324
Tornado Warning	55
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	228
Tornado Watch	85
Mesoscale Discussion	601
Special Weather Statement	193
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Watch	15
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	14
Winter
Blizzard Warning	36
Ice Storm Warning	1
Snow Squall Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	70
Blizzard Watch	11
Winter Storm Watch	76
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	207
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	7
Extreme Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	34
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	7
Freeze Warning	19
Wind Chill Warning	37
Extreme Cold Watch	4
Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	34
Wind Chill Advisory	154
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	12
High Wind Watch	4
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	142
Fire
Red Flag Warning	65
Fire Weather Watch	45
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	139
Freezing Fog Advisory	3

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 11, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	18 min
Aug 20, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	50 min
Jul 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	56 hr
Jul 12, 2:43 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	6 days
Jul 6, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	44 min
Jul 6, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	58 min
Jun 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	47 min
Jun 23, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	41 min
Jun 10, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	42 min
Jun 10, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	47 min
Jun 10, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MPX	50 min
Jun 10, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	40 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.