Alert archive / North Dakota / 2020
Weather alerts in North Dakota, May 2020
37 weather alerts in May 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20209 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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:42 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs and 7 more | 13 hr |
| May 2, 4:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs and 7 more | 15 hr |
| May 3, 3:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 2 hr |
| May 3, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 49 min |
| May 3, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 46 min |
| May 3, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Slope | 33 min |
| May 3, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 34 min |
| May 8, 4:14 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Renville, Rolette | 32 hr |
| May 8, 2:14 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 16 more | 29 hr |
| May 8, 3:23 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 5 more | 21 hr |
| May 9, 9:54 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 5 hr |
| May 14, 5:39 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 9:11 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 7 more | 12 hr |
| May 18, 1:46 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Ramsey, Towner | 6 hr |
| May 20, 9:50 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 5 more | 11 hr |
| May 22, 5:25 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer, Oliver, Stark | 5 hr |
| May 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Mountrail | 35 min |
| May 22, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Mountrail | 28 min |
| May 22, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 31 min |
| May 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 26 min |
| May 23, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger, McHenry and 8 more | 115 min |
| May 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 45 min |
| May 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 45 min |
| May 23, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 31 min |
| May 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Hettinger | 45 min |
| May 23, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Towner | 41 min |
| May 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger, Stark | 49 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton, Stark | 21 min |
| May 23, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Benson | 54 min |
| May 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Sheridan | 42 min |
| May 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Oliver | 25 min |
| May 23, 9:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Oliver | 41 min |
| May 23, 9:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Benson | 24 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FGF | Cavalier, Grand Forks, Pembina, Walsh | 17 hr |
| May 31, 10:01 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams | 10 hr |
| May 31, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 115 min |
| May 31, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope | 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 | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 16 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Golden Valley County9
- Hettinger County9
- Benson County8
- Slope County8
- Bowman County7
- Adams County7
- Rolette County6
- Stark County6
- Eddy County5
- Grand Forks County5
- Ramsey County5
- Billings County5
- Oliver County5
- Towner County5
- Mountrail County5
- Griggs County4
- Nelson County4
- Steele County4
- Traill County4
- Divide County4
- Grant County4
- McKenzie County4
- Williams County4
- Cavalier County4
- Barnes County3
- Cass County3
- Ransom County3
- Richland County3
- Sargent County3
- Dunn County3
- Walsh County3
- McHenry County2
- Pierce County2
- Burleigh County2
- Mercer County2
- Pembina County2
- Burke County2
- Morton County2
- Sheridan County2
- Bottineau County1
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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.