Weather alerts in Swift County, Minnesota

2,804 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Swift County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,804
Warnings: 683
Watches: 519
Advisories: 775
Busiest year: 2010150 alerts
Average year: 72over 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	329
Tornado Warning	62
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	223
Tornado Watch	94
Mesoscale Discussion	645
Special Weather Statement	182
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	13
Flash Flood Warning	10
Flash Flood Watch	15
Flood Watch	12
Areal Flood Advisory	15
Winter
Blizzard Warning	42
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	72
Blizzard Watch	13
Winter Storm Watch	81
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	11
Snow Advisory	8
Winter Weather Advisory	201
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	4
Excessive Heat Watch	8
Extreme Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	50
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	7
Freeze Warning	19
Wind Chill Warning	36
Extreme Cold Watch	4
Freeze Watch	6
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	9
Frost Advisory	33
Wind Chill Advisory	148
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	12
High Wind Watch	4
Blowing Dust Advisory	2
Wind Advisory	166
Fire
Red Flag Warning	68
Fire Weather Watch	48
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	128
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
Sep 11, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	16 min
Jul 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	56 hr
Jul 20, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	48 min
Jul 12, 2:43 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	6 days
Jul 7, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	43 min
Jul 6, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	44 min
Jun 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	54 min
Jun 10, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	40 min
Jun 10, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MPX	41 min
Jun 5, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	36 min
Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	33 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.