Weather alerts in Watonwan County, Minnesota

2,851 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Watonwan County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,851
Warnings: 549
Watches: 602
Advisories: 828
Busiest year: 2010166 alerts
Average year: 71over 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	227
Tornado Warning	31
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	236
Tornado Watch	118
Mesoscale Discussion	718
Special Weather Statement	154
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	16
Flash Flood Warning	18
Flash Flood Watch	50
Flood Watch	23
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	36
Heavy Snow Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	67
Blizzard Watch	11
Winter Storm Watch	85
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Snow Advisory	14
Winter Weather Advisory	221
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	14
Extreme Heat Warning	5
Excessive Heat Watch	12
Extreme Heat Watch	5
Heat Advisory	65
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	6
Freeze Warning	20
Wind Chill Warning	28
Extreme Cold Watch	3
Freeze Watch	4
Wind Chill Watch	7
Cold Weather Advisory	10
Frost Advisory	30
Wind Chill Advisory	126
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	13
High Wind Watch	5
Blowing Dust Advisory	1
Wind Advisory	205
Fire
Red Flag Warning	65
Fire Weather Watch	43
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	132
Freezing Fog Advisory	5

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 1, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	45 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 2, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	52 min
Jun 30, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	59 min
Jun 28, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	61 min
Jun 28, 12:44 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MPX	47 hr
May 17, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	56 min
May 17, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	42 min
May 17, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MPX	24 min
May 17, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MPX	58 min
May 17, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	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.