Weather alerts in Rock County, Minnesota

2,869 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rock County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,869
Warnings: 788
Watches: 509
Advisories: 884
Busiest year: 2010173 alerts
Average year: 70over 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	417
Tornado Warning	37
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	229
Tornado Watch	104
Mesoscale Discussion	688
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	20
Flash Flood Warning	50
River Flood Warning	58
Flash Flood Watch	36
Flood Watch	12
River Flood Watch	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	25
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	44
Blizzard Watch	10
Winter Storm Watch	63
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	14
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	206
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	7
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	5
Extreme Heat Watch	2
Heat Advisory	52
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	3
Freeze Warning	34
Wind Chill Warning	20
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	4
Cold Weather Advisory	12
Frost Advisory	40
Wind Chill Advisory	119
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	22
High Wind Watch	10
Wind Advisory	222
Fire
Red Flag Warning	42
Fire Weather Watch	25
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	205
Freezing Fog Advisory	2

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 1, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	71 min
Sep 1, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	43 min
Aug 18, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	36 min
Jul 25, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	37 min
Jul 25, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	34 min
Jul 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FSD	37 min
Jul 25, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	42 min
Jul 24, 11:24 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	FSD	46 hr
Jul 1, 4:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	26 min
Jul 1, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	65 min
Jul 1, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	39 min
Jun 28, 5:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	60 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.