Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Northwestern Minnesota Counties
If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services now.
For real-time, official alerts and instructions for your exact location, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) as applicable. This article is a data summary, not a substitute for the issuing agency's live warning.
Areazine synthesizes this NWS weather alert directly from NOAA's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
NWS Grand Forks has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Marshall, Pennington, Polk and Red Lake counties in Minnesota until 8:15 PM CDT.
Read this weather record in 30 seconds
- Record type
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Affected area
- Northwestern Minnesota
- Issued
- September 4, 2026
- Issuing authority
- NWS Grand Forks ND
Storm notices can cover different combinations of wind, hail, lightning, and rainfall. Use the original notice for the hazards and boundaries attached to this specific record.
Record status: publication date is recent, but current status is not stored on this page. Check the issuing agency's live warning service before acting because warnings can be updated, narrowed, or cancelled.
Alert Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued by NWS Grand Forks ND. Effective from September 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM CDT until September 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM CDT. Alert type code: SVR.
Affected Areas
Southern Marshall County, Red Lake County, Northwestern Polk County, and Pennington County in northwestern Minnesota. Locations impacted include Grand Forks, Thief River Falls, East Grand Forks, Warren, Red Lake Falls, Plummer, and St. Hilaire.
What You Should Do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Expected Conditions
At 7:19 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Argyle to near Sherack to Davidson, moving east at 35 mph. Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail (0.88 inch). Source: Radar indicated. Impact: Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Timeline
The warning is in effect from September 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM CDT and expires September 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM CDT.
Original source: NOAA Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Alerts
All Weather Alerts →Nationwide notices with similar length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this NWS weather alert: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (1,032 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to September 4, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this NWS weather alert.