# Air Quality Alert: Wabasha; Dodge; Olmsted; Winona; Fillmore; Houston — retained record

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source: [us-gov-api](https://highsignal.app/data/us-gov-api) (us-gov-api:noaa-weather)  published 2026-07-16 07:16 ingested 2026-07-17 08:18

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## extract

Air Quality Alert — Wabasha; Dodge; Olmsted; Winona; Fillmore; Houston
Severity: Unknown. Certainty: Unknown.
* WHAT...The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an Air
Quality Alert for fine particles pollution. The Air Quality Index
(AQI) is expected to reach the Red or Unhealthy category.

* WHERE...Southeastern Minnesota.

* WHEN...Until 11 AM CDT Friday.

* IMPACTS... Some members of the general public may experience
health effects. Sensitive groups, such as people with lung disease
(including asthma), heart disease, and children and older adults,
may experience health effects.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... Dense smoke is being pulled by a quasi-
stationary front across southern Minnesota. While the front has stalled
smoke has continued to move south along the Mississippi River
Valley and may continue to do so today. There will be a sharp
gradient of smoke, with some areas of the same counties
experiencing Good/Green air quality while other experience
Red/Unhealthy for All conditions as the front slowly moves south.
Conditions will gradually improve by Friday morning as the front
retreats northward.

## retained text

The historical document was shared with another weather alert and cannot be attributed to this record. The original extract is preserved above; the exact alert link was not retained.