Weather alerts in North Dakota, May 2021

75 weather alerts in May 2021, 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 75
Warnings: 16
Watches: 6
Advisories: 8
Busiest day: May 19, 202111 alerts

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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, 3:18 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 21 more	17 hr
May 1, 3:51 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	16 hr
May 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BIS	Bottineau, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Grant and 17 more	13 hr
May 5, 2:55 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	12 hr
May 6, 3:07 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Kidder and 12 more	19 hr
May 6, 3:15 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	19 hr
May 6, 1:29 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BIS	Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	14 hr
May 7, 3:37 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 5 more	17 hr
May 12, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	52 min
May 12, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	36 min
May 14, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Richland	29 min
May 17, 3:29 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Foster, Kidder, McHenry and 11 more	17 hr
May 17, 3:58 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina and 3 more	16 hr
May 19, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	47 min
May 19, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	39 min
May 19, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Kidder	23 min
May 19, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Griggs	64 min
May 19, 5:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Grand Forks, Griggs, Kidder and 6 more	117 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	44 min
May 19, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	34 min
May 19, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	24 min
May 19, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	27 min
May 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	39 min
May 19, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	32 min
May 19, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	30 min
May 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	38 min
May 20, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Logan, Stutsman	5 hr
May 20, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	40 min
May 20, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	37 min
May 20, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stark	24 min
May 20, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	35 min
May 20, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	17 min
May 20, 10:29 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Ransom, Steele and 1 more	12 hr
May 21, 1:11 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	6 hr
May 22, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	37 min
May 22, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	18 min
May 22, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	23 min
May 22, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	32 min
May 22, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	32 min
May 22, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	18 min
May 22, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	33 min
May 22, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	29 min
May 22, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	29 min
May 22, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Griggs, Nelson	43 min
May 22, 6:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Griggs	39 min
May 23, 2:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	7 hr
May 23, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Adams	27 min
May 23, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	26 min
May 23, 6:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bowman, Sioux	95 min
May 23, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	45 min
May 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Hettinger	30 min
May 23, 8:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Emmons, Grant, Morton, Oliver, Sioux	53 min
May 23, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Hettinger	22 min
May 23, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Mercer, Morton, Stark	44 min
May 23, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer	24 min
May 24, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	33 min
May 24, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	31 min
May 24, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Sargent	45 min
May 24, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan, Wells	30 min
May 24, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Richland	46 min
May 24, 3:27 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	17 hr
May 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more	21 hr
May 25, 3:05 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	18 hr
May 26, 3:50 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey and 2 more	28 hr
May 26, 2:59 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina, Towner	17 hr
May 26, 3:05 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	BIS	Burke, Divide, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce, Renville and 1 more	17 hr
May 26, 3:05 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	17 hr
May 27, 3:39 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 23 more	11 hr
May 27, 3:56 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	11 hr
May 27, 2:33 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more	17 hr
May 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	BIS	Adams, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 19 more	17 hr
May 29, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Ward	37 min
May 30, 3:38 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Ramsey and 3 more	16 hr
May 30, 3:57 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Foster, McHenry, McLean and 8 more	16 hr
May 30, 12:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Pembina	49 min

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	2
Tornado Warning	1
Tornado Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	3
Special Weather Statement	42
Flooding
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	4
Freeze Watch	2
Frost Advisory	2
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	3
Fire
Red Flag Warning	9
Fire Weather Watch	3
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.

13 more counties

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.