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Winter Storm Watch 6, NWS Twin Cities, MN

November 24, 20259 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this winter storm watch at Nov 24, 2025, 1:42 AM CST for 9 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Nov 25, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 24, 2025, 1:42 AM CST (07:42 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 25, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 25, 2025, 2:41 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Benton County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Nov 23, 10:48 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 10:48 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 2:23 PM CST	Wind Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 7 more	45 hr
Nov 24, 2:23 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more	46 hr
Nov 24, 2:23 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 13 more	12 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.