Weather alerts in Minnesota, December 2011

47 weather alerts in December 2011, 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 December 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 47
Warnings: 1
Watches: 2
Advisories: 43
Busiest day: December 30, 20117 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
Nov 30, 9:36 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		12 hr
Dec 2, 3:19 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		43 hr
Dec 2, 3:28 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles	45 hr
Dec 2, 4:00 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona	24 hr
Dec 2, 12:13 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	MPX	Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Martin, Rice and 2 more	15 hr
Dec 3, 1:38 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	5 hr
Dec 3, 3:04 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 15 more	24 hr
Dec 3, 4:03 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	24 hr
Dec 3, 10:37 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin	5 hr
Dec 4, 3:41 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		12 hr
Dec 4, 6:24 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ARX	Houston, Wabasha, Winona	5 hr
Dec 6, 3:59 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		29 hr
Dec 8, 12:27 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		3 days
Dec 11, 9:07 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		12 hr
Dec 11, 2:51 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Chisago, Ramsey, Washington	18 hr
Dec 11, 3:32 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis	53 hr
Dec 12, 8:46 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 5 more	12 hr
Dec 12, 8:54 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Pine	12 hr
Dec 14, 12:29 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	4 hr
Dec 14, 4:20 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 10 more	11 hr
Dec 14, 5:48 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	5 hr
Dec 14, 11:37 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	DLH	Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis	10 hr
Dec 14, 3:03 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	8 hr
Dec 14, 5:03 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		31 hr
Dec 16, 3:47 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		30 hr
Dec 18, 4:03 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		35 hr
Dec 19, 9:32 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		36 hr
Dec 23, 3:31 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Cook, Lake	11 hr
Dec 24, 3:56 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		35 hr
Dec 25, 2:39 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more	21 hr
Dec 25, 3:00 PM CST	Wind Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 5 more	23 hr
Dec 25, 3:11 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		54 hr
Dec 26, 3:51 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted	11 hr
Dec 28, 7:17 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more	8 hr
Dec 28, 8:29 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison and 3 more	7 hr
Dec 29, 3:16 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Becker, Clay, Grant, Norman, Otter Tail, Polk and 1 more	15 hr
Dec 29, 8:15 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray	7 hr
Dec 29, 9:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn, Kandiyohi and 10 more	12 hr
Dec 29, 9:17 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 5 more	6 hr
Dec 29, 9:25 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona	15 hr
Dec 29, 9:45 PM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	5 hr
Dec 30, 2:09 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	52 hr
Dec 30, 3:15 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock	57 hr
Dec 31, 3:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles	20 hr
Dec 31, 4:40 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Roseau	7 hr
Dec 31, 4:48 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	DLH	Pine	31 hr
Dec 31, 4:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Lake, Saint Louis	29 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
Mesoscale Discussion	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	9
Winter Weather Advisory	11
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	5
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	6
Marine
Small Craft Advisory	12

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

43 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.